Wholesale Biddy Mason Speaks Up

Winner of the Nautilus Book AwardWinner of the 2021 FOCAL AwardSilver Award Winner, 2020 Independent Publisher Book AwardsWinner of the Book Award for Young People’s Literature, 2020 Maine Literary AwardsA Great Kid Books Best New BookBuilding on the brilliance of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the newest installment in the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to another real-life champion for civil rights: Bridget “Biddy” Mason, an African American philanthropist, healer, and midwife who was born into slavery.When Biddy Mason arrived in California, where slavery was technically illegal, she was kept captive by her owners and forced to work without pay. But when Biddy learned that she was going to be taken to a slave state, she launched a plan to win her freedom. She refused to be defined by her enslavement, and coauthors Arisa White and Laura Atkins devote much of their narrative to Biddy Mason's later life as a business and civic leader in the fledglin...