Hannah was born into slavery in the year 1832 and eventually had three children. Having opinions, dreams, and goals, were dangerous traits for a slave. Exhibiting such willfulness would get you beaten or sold so Hannah did her best to drive these traits out of her children. Hannah never lived to experience a single day of freedom; but her three children did. Her son, Samuel, was nineteen, and her twin daughters, Pearl and Ruby, were just barely sixteen when they were emancipated. They had been dutiful children, obeying their momma in order to stay near her. But as freed people these same...