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First District Court of Los Angeles

The legal venue where Biddy Mason’s freedom suit was heard in January 1856, resulting in one of the largest emancipations west of Texas. The court’s decision marked a rare intervention against racialized legal fictions that upheld slavery.

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Southern California’s perennial sunshine rarely penetrated the ground-floor lockup of the Los Angeles county jail. On the best of days a dank stillness would have encased the adobe chamber and those confined within. And this was the worst of days.

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