Love her. I will love to read more about her. I love women that do what makes them happy and that is why they stand out among the rest.

I think we as people of color really need to take a look at our ancestors.. Because the way we act today is not even a good look!

Yeah…I would take off runnin if i saw her coming at me.

I love CL for this. Its so great to learn something about my heritage. Great story.

BLUUU- PHIII 1914

Wow! Ms. Mary Fields didn’t play that Shit!

wow.

i LOVED that she knocked out white men with one punch. LOL sorry I just do.

This is why I love Conrete!! Thank you for this bit of history!!

greatness.

she ran things. thats how grown women do it.

WOW she is a tough woman, I wouldn’t have walked up on her in that time era. But the fact that she was a slave, Its cool that she worked after the fact; that’s a strong black woman.

Uh..whoa..speechless…and not in a good way

A movie should be made about this woman, she is an interesting character

I wonder how many comments this blog is gonna get. 20 at most

SHE OPENED A LAUNDRY BUSINESS AT 70. WOW. THAT’S DEFINITELY A STRONG WOMAN.

CL SHOULD DO POSTS ABOUT ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE THAT INVENTED THINGS WE ALL USE. I BET MANY OF THE YOUNGER READERS WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW SOME OF THE THINGS BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED.

I never heard of her thanks for the info…I bet they were scared to tell her to leave that convent

Wow!
the power black women have never ceases to amaze me. A black woman respected in the 19th century… crazy.

She reminds me of grandma rip. She ddnt take nonsense from n e one yet she had a soft side ppl rarely saw. That’s a strong courageous woman who held her own in a repressive society. U learn something new everyday.

Nice write up. Enjoyed today’s history lesson

THANK YOU Ms. Mary!!

This was a great read, thanks CL.

Now that’s a bad “bitch”

What a great story. CL be having the real deal with these story. Always keeping me thinking. Bless Ya CL.

At 1st i thought CL was introducing us to a new singer( until i read the title) oops!…She aint playin wit that gun, and she was tall..im sure no 1 messed with her..even the dog look like it will bite the bitch outta you!…Good Ole History Facts 4 the day! Love it! learn something or sum 1 new everyday!

WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE?! WAS MARY FIELDS TALL OR A SHORT WOMAN? I’M CONFUSED

Btw are Mrs. Fields Cookies Based Off Her last name??? Could be ya never know(serious)

**Okay, I see it now!**

I love this story…Thanks CL for a look back into time. It makes me feel like life is all in what you make it.

@ Lis, it says short-tempered. LOL. She was 6 foot tall.

@27, I have a bad habit of scanning through, but I did read the entire article. Very good one! lol

Learn something new every day, She was a powerful women. Thanks CL!!!!

COMMENTS 1, 2, 3 & 21

GOOD Afternoon….

@24. She was tall “6-foot.” She was also “short-tempered”, as in easily angered.

lol look at the dog

And thus, the birth of “Lesbianism”!

Never needed a man, never wanted a man.

I love her confidence. A very strong black woman.

Wow @ the first sentence “Never had no children”…. Wow just because it’s an article about slavery times means we have to use improper grammar?

She don’t play but I learn something new everyday. Thanks CL

LOL the dog is funny lookin. I find his facial expression hilarious for some reason.

Great article! Mary Fields seems like an interesting person, thanks for dropping a little bit of knowledge on me today, CL…

OOOH, SHE AINT SOMEONE U’D WANNA HAVE IT OUT WIT!! LOOK @ HOW SHE HOLDIN THAT SHOT GUN… OOOO, AND THE DOG!

LOL, I didn’t notice the dog! I bet you won’t pet him! lol.

Wow, never heard of her, very interesting read! Love CL’s Spotlights!

A DNA test would provide a strong match between Mary Fields, Serena Williams and South African runner Caster Semenya.

LOL youz a fool Meat.

Interesting, I <3 Black History spotlight. I wish other blogs were as enlightened.

@Educated Goon

Name that Dog for me (lol), you are too funny! lol.

I have never of heard of this fantastic woman..thanks CL!

@Educated Goon

lol they edited the first sentence

More black l*sbian glorification lmao & smh. This is just proof that the “strong black woman” movement = feminism movement = l*sbian movement. Women like Mary Fields, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, etc. were all l*sbians and that is the ONLY reason why they are commemorated. The white man does not want the black women to see femininity in accord with the family unit….just some dyke trying to knock out men. I gurantee that those children that she “loved” were all white children lol.

What a Courageous, brave and strong willed woman. If black people weren’t so divided we could be so powerful!

I was wondering where you were Judah! I knew you were coming! (smile).

@ 36. I edited it. LOL. I didn’t even catch that one and Judah always has something to say. Damn!

Taurus women are SO thorough… Shout to Ms. Fields, she and I have the same birthday!!!

This was my first time really reading the “spotlight’ and I am so happy I did. I’m proud to have read about someone like Ms. Fields. And her life was even an example that whites and blacks did get a long. Look at how they treated her. She’s like my new hero now.lol

Im shocked she was allowed to even act like that back in those days. hmmm

@ Angel….. that damn Judah he seems really hateful and sad

Wow great read, she was def about her business.

This is the kinda women we need out there now, stong black women God bless their souls, all those who made the path for us (black) to follow.

@49 Judah u always got something negative to say why?? wow i don’t know wat u want anymore they give celebs negativity, they give a bit of your history negativity wat is she now a lesbian and the anti-christ, mason yeah? wat are u??? lool

Thank you sooo much for this CL, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of her. She was a badd lady! I wanna know more about her too; she seems very interesting. I love the fact that she didn’t take mess from anybody but would help out those in need. It’s nice to know that there was at least one respected black woman from back in the day!

@52ANGELONFIRE

This is off the subject! but can you please get the name of that dog! LOL have a good day girl!

I congratulate you for doing this. I do research on AA during WWI and WWII. This is an amazing story. Hope you’ll do something like this every day.

You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to see what the arrangement was. A 6-foot black dyke living around a bunch of white nuns lol. The nuns “loved” her so much, and she “loved” them so good, lol, that they helped her open a cafe. They even gave her a “mail route”, “stagecoach”, and a “team of horses” lmao. I bet they did. I wonder what she helped the nuns with that they sponsored her so thoroughly? I don’t see how she stands as a person worth remembering whatsoever, other than as a paragon of l*sbianism.

Great article!!

Of course Judah ALWAYS has something negative to say about a Black woman.

LMAO at all the side comments about this amazing woman’s sexuality! What in the HAIL does that have to do with anything??? LOL

Thank you for posting about our ancestors. It is great. I enjoy reading them. What I enjoyed about reading this is the fact that she could knock a man out with a single punch. That is what I’m talking about. POW~~~~

#63 ….Judah writes from his jail cell. He is serving life with no parole, Let me guess Judah.
Drive by. #63 whenever a black man puts a black women down just throw back in their face all the shit they are known for. 10-12 fucken kids, grade 8 education, gun in pocket, and you know the list goes on and on. At least we can say 5-0 never showed up at my mamas house can he say the same……… probably not that’s why he’s in jail.
Good Day!

Thanks for shedding some light on this and sharing it with us all. I love to learn about Black History. I’m sure there are a lot of our ancestors that arent talked about in the least bit, so this was truly refreshing.:)

Lol wow Miss. Mary don’t play!
She was a hard working woman - even in her old age.
I wasn’t going to read this spotlight but that picture got me - she sure was a big woman. Who would even want to test her and try and see if she could knock ‘em out?

Contrary to what someone stated above, I think it goes without saying that Mary Fields, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are historically significant due to their contributions to the progress of blacks and women of all races in America. Not because of what some presume to be their sexual orientation due to narrow-minded views on gender roles.

Post Script, Sojourner Truth had at least 5 children in her lifetime.

Liberated before Women’s Liberation, very strong and brave woman, and to be a black women in that period and time, just wow.

@LYNN!

Girl do you really think Judah is writing from his jail cell! That is a scary thought!
do they even allow people in jail to have computers, I think they do, if they show
good behavior or something like that!

Damn that is scary!

This woman was someone I would’ve love to have met just to shake her hand. Who cares about her sexuality? Maybe she never met a man that wasn’t intimidated by her size and personality. She was definitely beyond her time. Who knows why the nuns loved her,who cares? Would we respect her more if she’s been hung for her actions? I see so much strength and self-respect in her photo. She seems to have been a very great lady.

well, she COULD’VE been a lesbian since this WAS in part taken from BITCH magazine which is a known lesbian magazine publication

i wouldn’t be surprised if she really was a burly, asexual, intimidating black woman as we’ve been portrayed for the past 100+ years

Lesbian,non-lesbian,hermaphrodite,trans-sexual,heterosexual,whatever she was or wasn’t. Does it take away from her accomplishments?Does it make me less proud that she is black?No.

According to another website,Miss Mary follwed the daughter(Dolly,later named Sister Amadeus) of her slavemaster to the nunnery. They became friends as they grew together on the plantation. SIster Amadeus moved elsewhere,Mary stayed on. From what I read there wasn’t that much love between her and the nuns,she was after all,still a black woman. They NEEDED her becasue she was the hardest and strongest worker.