Badass Woman with a Heart of Gold
Mary Fields was born a plantation slave in Hickman County, Tennessee, sometime in 1832 in the home of Judge Edmund Dunne and his wife Josephine who had five children. At this time in history, slaves made up 25% of the population of Tennessee and they were the unwilling backbone of the state’s agricultural production. Tennessee was home to many of the largest slave holding plantations. This included, then, President Andrew Jackson’s Heritage Plantation in Nashville where 150 b