The Story of Mattie J. Jackson - Paperback

by L. S. Thompson (Author), J. Godsey (Author), J. Godsey (Editor)

The true story, of a woman who survived 18 years of slavery, saw her family ripped apart by greedy masters, her mother and siblings sold off, and witnessed the beginnings of the Civil War in St. Louis, Missouri before she escaped to Lawrence, Massachusetts and freedom.