Disabled, She Still Escaped With Her Children

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Shonda Buchanan
November 26, 2020

Nancy Adams limped out of the woods with her three starving children, exhausted after five months of hiding. Her enslaver promised he’d sell her to another – one who claimed that, with him, she could buy her family’s freedom.

She thought the worst was over. It was not.

The second enslaver betrayed her! He sold the family down South – and her daughter died on the journey. Would this misery never end? 

Adams toiled for 23 years, always looking for her next chance at freedom – so she could determine her own life and save her remaining children. Would she ever make it?

Sadly, Adams was sold a THIRD time – this time without her sons! She knew she HAD to escape, or suffer for the rest of her life. One day, she quietly slipped into an icehouse, where she spent two excruciating, freezing days – until her owner left the city. 

But she wasn’t safe yet. 12 years later, she heard her old enslaver was coming to re-enslave her!

She fled again, escaping a third and final time to Uxbridge, MA, where she eventually died a free woman. 

Freedom might not be found on the first attempt. We, too, must persist despite setbacks and obstacles – then we can eventually achieve liberation and determine our own fate! How are you persisting in determining your own fate?

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