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Born in Illinois, Polly Crocket was stolen into slavery as a young girl and taken to Missouri. Years later, she fought for freedom in the courts for her and her daughter Lucy. In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, Lucy recalls her mother’s bravery, their unbreakable bond, and incidents from her own life as a free African American woman.

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Born in Illinois, Polly Crocket was stolen into slavery as a young girl and taken to Missouri. Years later, she fought for freedom in the courts for her and her daughter Lucy. In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, Lucy recalls her mother’s bravery, their unbreakable bond, and incidents from her own life as a free African American woman.

Lucy Ann Delaney, born Lucy Berry (c. 1830 - after 1891), was an African-American author, and activist, a former slave notable for her 1891 narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom. This is the only first-person account of a "freedom suit" and one of the few slave narratives published in the post-Emancipation period. The memoir recounts her mother Polly Berry's legal battles in St. Louis, Missouri, for her own an...

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Lucy Ann Delaney (c. 1830-c. 1890s) was an African-American author and former slave, remembered for her inspiring 1891 narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom, which remains virtually the only source of information regarding her life. The text takes much of its shape from slave narratives and is primarily devoted to Polly Berry's struggles to free her family. Though the story is ostensibly Delaney's, Berry remai...