Julia A. J. Foote was born in Schenectady, New York to former slaves and devout Christians. She embraced their faith at an early age, joining the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church when she was fifteen years old, by which time she was living in Albany with her adopted family. She married George Foote in 1841, […]
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