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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Bridget “Biddy” Mason The Grandmother of Los Angeles
Description: Today we are going to talk about Bridget “Biddy” Mason, the grandmother of Los Angeles, one of the most influential Black women in California. She overcame unimaginable prejudice and inequity and was one of the first prominent landowning citizens of Los Angeles.
Briget was born into slavery in Georgia on August 15 of 1818. Her parents were of mixed African American and Native American descent. She wasn’t given a last name. Because of this common practice with slaves, many African Americans can only go back so far in their ancestry. Stolen.
One of her several slaveholders in Georgia and South Carolina starte...