I go always where Jesus calls me, honey. — Clara Brown (image via Colorado Virtual Library) When she was just 18, Clara Brown saw her family torn apart. As an teenage mother in slavery, she watched as her husband, her son and her three daughters were sold on a Kentucky auction block. She remained a domestic servant to her new master, George Brown -- but when he died in 1856, seven years before the Emancipation Proclamation, Clara won her freedom. She finally had the power to reunite her broken family -- she just needed enough money to start searching.
A Woman to Know: Clara Brown
A Woman to Know: Clara Brown
A Woman to Know: Clara Brown
I go always where Jesus calls me, honey. — Clara Brown (image via Colorado Virtual Library) When she was just 18, Clara Brown saw her family torn apart. As an teenage mother in slavery, she watched as her husband, her son and her three daughters were sold on a Kentucky auction block. She remained a domestic servant to her new master, George Brown -- but when he died in 1856, seven years before the Emancipation Proclamation, Clara won her freedom. She finally had the power to reunite her broken family -- she just needed enough money to start searching.