Aunt Clara Brown
Official Pioneer (On My Own Biography)
by Linda Lowery
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appears in About Colorado.
As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn't find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she...
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