The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne
by
Dale Baum
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship...