# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucy-delaney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:53:00.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucy-delaney"
name: "Lucy Delaney"
slug: "lucy-delaney"
description: "Lucy Delaney was an African American seamstress, slave narrator, and community leader. She was born into slavery and was primarily held by the Major Taylor Berry and Judge Robert Wash families. As a teenager, she was the subject of a freedom lawsuit, because her mother lived in Illinois, a free state, longer than 90 days. According to Illinois state law, enslaved people that reside in Illinois for more than 90 days should be indentured and freed. The country's rule of partus sequitur ventrem asserts that if the mother was free at the child's birth, the child should be free. After Delaney's mother, Polly Berry, filed a lawsuit for herself, she filed a lawsuit on her daughter's behalf in 1842. Delaney was held in jail for 17 months while awaiting the trial."
tagline: "American writer (1830-1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LucyDelaney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1830"
deathDate: "1890"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           7.673290666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80"
    title: "ਲੂਸੀ ਡੇਲਾਨੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "لوسي ديلاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Delaney"
    title: "Lucy Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Delaney"
    title: "Lucy Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_A._Delaney"
    title: "Lucy A. Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Delaney"
    title: "Lucy Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Delaney"
    title: "Lucy Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Delaney"
    title: "Lucy Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80"
    title: "लूसी डेलानी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6698268"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump