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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.

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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.
Autorenporträt
Mildred Johnson is a resident of St. Louis County, now retired. After working for St. Louis County Hospital for several years as a nurse's attendant, she established the first hot lunch program in the Kirkwood school system, at Booker T. Washington School. Johnson is also the author of a volume of poetry, Miracle at Twilight. Theresa Delsoin is a native of Kirkwood, Missouri, and the sister of Mildred Johnson. Delsoin holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Chicago State University. Now retired from a career in social services, hospital administration, and mental health, she resides in North Miami Beach, Florida, and serves as a Peace Corps volunteer in Samoa. Stuart Symington, Jr., is counsel to the Clayton, Missouri, law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., where he was a partner from 1988 to 2000. Symington was a founder, and is a past chairman, of the University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor's Council and is a trustee of the Bernoudy Foundation.