Title

Lucy Delaney Enslavement

Description

"“Soon is the echo and the shadow o’er, Soon, soon we lie with lid-encumbered eyes, And the great fabrics that we reared before Crumble to make a dust to hide who dies.”

Lucy Anne Delaney lived a remarkable life. She was the child of a once-free woman who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Lucy and her family would encounter different periods of freedom, enslavement, running to find freedom, bought and sold again, and finally winning a suit for freedom. This amazing woman concluded her life with an astounding account of her life in the book From the Darkness Cometh the Light. This site is a reminder of the virtues of hope and freedom.

"There’s a joy in every sorrow, There’s a relief from every pain; Though to-day ’tis dark to-morrow HE will turn all bright again.”

Creator

Brian Thomas

Semester

Intro to Public History

Subject

Historic Marker Nominations

Lucy Anne Delaney

Freedom

Slavery

African American History

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

African Americans

Language

English

Publisher

UMSL Digital Humanities Lab

Date

2020

Identifier

Coordinates: 38.634, -90.196