Dr. Christopher P. Lehman, author of It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom, will talk about the life of enslaved woman Eliza Winston and her persistence in her pursuit of liberation. Born in 1817, she spent her childhood and early adulthood enslaved by President Andrew Jackson’s family in Tennessee. In 1860, after seven years in Mississippi, her enslavers took her on their vacation to Minnesota. There, she found allies who helped her successfully plead her case for emancipation. She became the first and only enslaved person freed through Minnesota’s courts.