Malindy's Freedom: The Story of a Slave Family Volume 1

by Theresa Delsoin and Mildred Johnson

This is an account of the years 1820 to 1865 in the life of Malindy, a freeborn Cherokee who was unlawfully enslaved as a child by a Franklin County, Missouri, farmer. Married to a freedman, Malindy gave birth to five children in slavery--creating a family she would fight her whole life to keep together. As a testament to Malindy's iron will, her great-granddaughters Mildred Johnson and Theresa Delsoin have lived to share the story passed on through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883982537
• ISBN13: 9781883982539
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Missouri Historical Society Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher