SB. Nancy Sinatra has turned 83
Nancy Sinatra at 85: The Enduring Legacy of an Icon Who Walked Her Own Path In the pantheon of American music, few surnames evoke the […]
RF. Royal Buzz! Duchess Sophie’s 8-Word Remark About Meghan Markle Has Everyone Talking
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, has recently attracted increased public attention following renewed discussions about the future roles of various members of the British Royal Family. […]
AC. SHE KILLED HER OWN DAUGHTER RATHER THAN LET SLAVERY TAKE HER BACK
PART 3 The river that had looked like a road to freedom took another life. After the wreck, Margaret lived. The child did not. Grief […]
AC. He Destroyed Her Daughter — So This Enslaved Mother Took Him Down in Silence
PART 2 Early March 1859 was when the quiet work stopped being quiet. Hannah Reed knew she could not wait any longer. Silas Boon had […]
AC. Nobody Understood Why the Enslaved Woman Wouldn’t Leave the Master’s Children — Until the Truth Came Out
PART 2 Once Boyer knew, he could not stop seeing his father in her. The particular hazel of the eyes. The straight aristocratic line of […]
AC. THEY BURNED A MAN ALIVE IN THE TOWN SQUARE — AND CALLED IT JUSTICE
PART 2 The dry wood caught at once. What followed was recorded in terrible detail by several witnesses. The correspondent for O Abolicionista wrote that […]
AC. She Cooked Every Meal in That House for 15 Years. Then She Vanished Overnight—and the Most Powerful Man in the County Couldn’t Even Make Breakfast.
PART 2 She was at Engenho Santo Amaro, working as a free cook. She had planned it with Felisberto, a free Black man who worked […]
AC. Union soldiers found children locked in a Georgia basement. They all had the same green eyes. Then the oldest girl said something that made hardened men sick.
PART 2 The plantation that looked saved from the road was, inside the quarters, a machine with a timetable. Between 1848 and 1853 Catherine bore […]
AC. 5 Men Hunted a black slave in the Woods… She Made Sure None Returned
Court documents from Wilkinson County, Georgia, once referenced five plantation overseers who marched into the Ohoopee River bottomlands on October 14th, 1839. Only one returned, […]
AC. A COLONEL HANDED HIS WIFE OVER TO SEVEN SLAVES — THE DEAL THAT DESTROYED A SOUTHERN DYNASTY – 1855
The year was 1855, and the heart of South Carolina pulsed to the rhythm of cotton plantations, a relentless engine of wealth for a select […]