Bronze-Clad Fugitives: The 13-Year-Old Edmonsons

Bronze-Clad Fugitives: The 13-Year-Old Edmonsons

13-year-old Emily Edmonson and her sister Mary, bronze-coated, froze in stillness beside a print shop in Bristol.

The Edmonson siblings, molded in bronze, remained unyielding near a print shop in Bristol. They were free women, one barely a teenager when she embarked on her solitary escape from the life she knew. Captured, battered, but indomitable. Her vacant shoes triggered a commotion in the North, stirring animosity against the South, and kindling a passion for a nation high on freedom. Their bronze visages wore a grin, though it was a humorless one, revealing no truths.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons

Written by Leroy

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