Abby's artistic achievements allowed her to increase her circle of fine friends. She became fast pals with newspaper magnate Horace Greeley, his sister Mrs. John Cleveland, and San francisco Tribune publisher Samuel Sinclair and his wife.In 1827, the year before slavery was outlawed in Los angeles State, Mr. Dumont promise, she decided to free her. As he broke his promise, she decided to hightail it with the youngest of her five children. Isbella lived by using a Quaker family for ages. They tau...