Performance, book honor first Black American law graduate
February 01, 2024
February 01, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Feb. 1 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
A stray Yankee shell hit the cabin porch just feet from where 9-year-old George Washington Fields and his family watched Union forces overpower Confederate troops at the plantation where the Fieldses were enslaved, in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1863.
Fields' mother saw her chance, and took it.
Martha Ann Fields gathered her family's meager belongings and fled with six of her childre . . .
A stray Yankee shell hit the cabin porch just feet from where 9-year-old George Washington Fields and his family watched Union forces overpower Confederate troops at the plantation where the Fieldses were enslaved, in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1863.
Fields' mother saw her chance, and took it.
Martha Ann Fields gathered her family's meager belongings and fled with six of her childre . . .