Sally Maria Diggs
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title:
Sally Maria Diggs
text:
Sally Maria Diggs was an enslaved African-American girl, also known as "Pinky", whose freedom was famously bought by Henry Ward Beecher in 1860, during a sermon at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, NYC. Beecher famously said, "No child should be in slavery, let alone a child like this" and raised $900 to purchase her freedom. A parishioner named Rose Terry donated a ring toward Diggs' freedom. Upon her emancipation, Diggs was renamed Rose Ward, after Rose Terry and Henry Ward Beecher. The episode was c
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Freed American slave (born c. 1851)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Maria_Diggs
date created:
2011-01-23T19:57:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T19:59:24Z
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