My children, there is a God, who hears and sees you… when you are beaten, or cruelly treated, or fall into any trouble, you must ask help of him, and he will always hear and help you.
Translated from Dutch to English, that’s what her mother taught Isabella Baumfree, raised in slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley in the first decade of the 19th centu…
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