slave

slave

slave

At 35 years of age, she was sold by her owner at auction and separated from her husband and children

eighteen she married and subsequently gave birth to four children.

first black woman to cross the plains during the Gold Rush.

death of two

of her four children, and having lost track of her son, Brown returned to Kentucky in an attempt to locate her surviving daughter, Liza Jane.

Sometime between 1866 and 1885, when Brown died, she was reunited with Liza Jane and a granddaughter, Cindy.