AC.. MELODY THOMAS SCOTT BAD NEWS!
Melody Thomas Scott, best known for her decades-long role as Nikki Newman on The Young and the Restless, has revealed deeply personal experiences in her […]
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AC. The Wedding Saboteur of Mississippi — The Slave Woman Who Destroyed a Whole Dynasty, 1856
A Legend Born From Oppression in Antebellum Mississippi Stories from the American South before the Civil War are often told through the voices of those […]
AC. The Wedding Saboteur of Mississippi — The Slave Woman Who Destroyed a Whole Dynasty, 1856
A Legend Born From Oppression in Antebellum Mississippi Stories from the American South before the Civil War are often told through the voices of those […]
AC. Plantation Owner Purchased a Blind Slave Woman
In the heart of the antebellum South, a plantation stood tall against the horizon, its white columns gleaming beneath a sun that offered no mercy. […]
AC. They Sent “Non-Combat” Black Troops to Patton — What Happened Next Shook the Third Army
General George S. Patton stood before his troops and famously thundered, “Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win […]
AC. She Was Declared Barren — Then Her Husband Bought Her a ‘Stud’ Slave
She Was Declared “Unfit” — Then Her Husband Bought a Man to Solve the Problem The first time they called me “unfit,” my husband didn’t […]
AC. The Weaver of the Dark Forest
The Unseen Rebellion: When the Prey Becomes the Hunter In the early decades of the nineteenth century, the coastline along the Bight of Benin existed […]
AC. The President of the United States impregnated his wife’s sister, a slave, six times.
In September 1802, a newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, printed a story that stunned the young American nation. It claimed that the sitting President of the […]
AC. The Slave Who Escaped and Became the Most Feared Mountain Man in the South
The Slave Who Escaped and Became the Most Feared Mountain Man in the South They said Elias was born without a cry. The midwife who […]
AC. The Impossible Secret of the Most Titan-Built Slave Woman Ever Bred in Charleston — 1843
In the spring of 1962, a graduate student named Ellen Whitfield opened a worn archival box in the reading room of the South Carolina Historical […]