Ancient

Charleston, South Carolina, Spring 1860. Seven high-society women meet every Tuesday afternoon in Mrs. Helena Beaumont’s parlor. Officially, they form a embroidery and Bible study […]

The ledger sat open on the plantation desk, its pages yellowed with age and humidity. But it wasn’t the accounts of cotton yields or tobacco […]

Caroline Ashford had never known the touch of a man. At 40, this wealthy Charleston heiress lived in her grand mansion on Meeting Street, surrounded […]

I was 20 years old when I learned that the human body could be reduced to a stopwatch.  I’m not talking about metaphor, I’m talking […]

My name is Elise Morau.  I was 85 years old when I decided to speak out.  For over 60 years, I remained silent. A silence […]

Every spring between 1843 and 1847, at least seven daughters from Mississippi’s wealthiest plantation families vanished without a trace. No bodies were ever found. No […]

In September 1802, a Richmond, Virginia newspaper published an article that shook the entire American nation. The President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, the […]

On a humid August night in 1851, somewhere along the tobacco plantations of Southside, Virginia, a slave trader’s ledger recorded an entry that would never […]

I was ten years old when a German officer entered the kitchen of my house, pointed at me as one chooses a piece of fruit […]

I was 16 when I learned that he There are things worse than death. I My name is Jeanne Lemoine, I am 78 years old […]