Louise Lauck Kingston

She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton

History & Biography

“In this twenty-first-century time of racial reckoning, this is an important book. I was impressed by Escher’s careful research of both late eighteenth-century New Jersey General Assembly Acts and of Ashbel Green’s recently available (1990) extensive diaries. She combines all that with intimately telling of Betsey Stockton’s early years as an enslaved child.”