Azeline Hearne

Biography

Azeline Hearne (c. 1825-1890?), was an American slave who was freed while she was in her 30s of her life, and became famous for the numerous lawsuits brought against her during the Reconstruction era. Hearne was briefly one of the wealthiest landowners in Texas before being reduced to poverty through civil lawsuits considered by modern-day historians as unfair.

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