- Collection:
- Savannah Biographies
- Title:
- Betsey Baptiste: Biography of a Free Woman of Color
- Creator:
- Robbins, Grace A.
- Date of Original:
- 1994-04-01
- Subject:
- Biography--Georgia--Savannah
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- biographies (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Betsey Baptiste came to Georgia in 1795 as an African slave and received her freedom in 1813. She worked as a "vendor of small wares" and was able to support herself, buy a house and add to her property holdings over the years. Betsey was forced to live under the authority of nineteenth century whites, who were uncomfortable with this odd class of free blacks in a slave-holding society. The whites created laws to control and hinder virtually every action of the blacks. Despite the constant hardships she faced, Betsey lived fifty-one years in Savannah as a free black. She never married or had children and she died in 1857 of old age.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/12
- Additional Rights Information:
- This work is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
- Holding Institution:
- Lane Library (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus)
- Rights:
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