![]() For example, she wrote passes for her Black family and friends, so they could travel at night without being arrested by the city watchmen. Susie used what she learned to help her grandmother and other free Black people in her neighborhood resist the oppressive laws they lived under. When that girl went to boarding school, Susie studied with her landlord’s white son. ![]() A white playmate then offered to secretly tutor her. ![]() ![]() Susie was a quick learner and soon mastered everything the school could teach her. If the school was discovered, they would all have been severely punished. To make sure the school remained a secret, Susie and her classmates never arrived or left at the same time. So she sent Susie to a secret school for Black children. It was illegal to teach enslaved people to read and write, but Susie’s grandmother knew that education was important. When Susie was seven years old, her enslavers allowed her and two of her siblings to move to Savannah, Georgia, to live with their free grandmother. Susie inherited the status of her mother and began her life as an enslaved person. ![]() Her mother, Hagar Ann Baker, was enslaved by the Grest family. Susie Baker was born on a plantation in Liberty County, Georgia, on August 6, 1848. ![]()
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