{"id":61331,"date":"2021-08-28T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61331"},"modified":"2021-08-28T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T03:00:47","slug":"silvia-hector-webber-a-freedom-fighters-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61331","title":{"rendered":"Silvia Hector Webber: A Freedom Fighter’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silvia Hector Webber: A Freedom Fighter’s Story<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Esther Hammack, PhD: Historian, Researcher, Teacher, & Public Scholar<\/a>
November 2018<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Esther Hammack, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Silvia Hector<\/a> (also known as Silvia Webber) was a freedom fighter born in West Florida<\/a> in 1807.1 <\/sup><\/a>She was the first free Black woman settler of Webberville<\/a>, a town located in the outskirts of present-day Austin, Texas<\/a>. Silvia played a foundational role in leading freedom seekers to safe havens by ferrying them away from US<\/a> bondage to freedom destinations in Mexico<\/a>.2<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

In 1819, 12-year-old Silvia was transported to the Cryer family\u2019s plantation in Clark County, Arkansas<\/a>. There she was sold on Mach 10, 1819 by Silas McDaniel to Morgan Cryer Sr., a Revolutionary War<\/a> veteran, for $550.3 <\/sup><\/a>Silvia labored in Arkansas<\/a> for seven years until she was forced South from there, to Mexican Texas<\/a> by her enslaver\u2019s son, John. Silvia arrived in Texas on March 15, 1826, as one five enslaved individuals introduced into Austin\u2019s Colony<\/a> by John Cryer, his wife, and his two children.4<\/sup><\/a>…<\/p>\n

…While still enslaved at John Cryer\u2019s plantation in central Texas Silvia was pursued by John Webber, a white man from Vermont<\/a> who had settled in a neighboring land grant<\/a>. Silvia\u2019s freedom papers and several witness accounts highlight the relationship John Webber established with her.7<\/sup><\/a> Webber met Silvia at some point between 1826 and 1829 and records point out that \u201che became infatuated with her.\u201d8<\/sup><\/a> In early 1829 Silvia became pregnant with her first child by John Webber, a daughter she named Alcy (also knowns as Elsie) and who was born, enslaved, in October of 1829.9<\/sup><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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