| Mary Brown and Her Daughters documentary film project Allies for Freedom publishers Daguerreotype "Mrs. John Brown & two of her children" made in Vernon, New York, in 1853. Annie (left) age ten and Sarah (right) age seven. Location of original dag unknown. Copy in Featherstonhaugh Collection. The Saratoga Historical Foundation courtesy the Library of Congress. |
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| Mary Brown and Her Daughters: a Legacy of Equality and Cooperation in Santa Clara County, 1880 – 1920 The story of John Brown the abolitionist and his militant war on slavery is a compelling one in our nation’s history. Brown is a controversial figure, yet many consider him to be a founding father of civil rights in the United States. The story of his widow Mary Anne Day Brown, a California pioneer on the Overland Trail in 1864, is rarely told. After migrating to the Santa Clara Valley in 1881, Mary and her daughters Sarah and Ellen continued John Brown’s abolitionist legacy of the pursuit of democracy and equal opportunity for all. The project will generate substantive online resources including text, visual references, short video documentaries, presented in conference: “John Brown’s Widow Mary and Her Daughters Come Home to Saratoga, California” scheduled for September 25, 2012, at Hakone Gardens to present a Video Tour of seven historic properties of Brown family residence and interment. There are excerpts of researched oral history interviews of significant persons in Santa Clara County with whom the family interacted. Community volunteers from the Saratoga Historical Foundation will bring living history in an engaging manner. The conference will be broadcast on KSAR 15 Community Access TV. Jean Libby, Project Director editor@alliesforfreedom.org |
