Everything wrong with America: Rosa Parks after-story is a case of Black heroism being praised in public and abandoned in private
After the boycott, Rosa Parks entered one of the hardest chapters of her life, marked by unemployment, threats, illness, displacement and financial instability. Yet even there, she kept organising, kept speaking and kept widening the meaning of freedom.
Free slave hunts his old masters: How, after fighting in war that freed Blacks from slavery, Isaiah Cole turned fury on priest and judge
Isaiah Cole ordered a meal and sat with his back to the wall, listening, calling it murder, plain and simple. A red-faced farmer was saying, “Man wasn’t popular, but he deserved a trial if he done wrong.” “What trial?” Another scoffed. “Yankees won the war. Ain’t no justice for white...
Free slave hunts old masters-1: Why Isaiah Cole returned to Georgia with vengeance to hunt down slave owners who killed his Mama
Isaiah walked with the measured pace of a man conserving strength for a longer journey. Each step stirred dust that settled on his worn boots. Union issued, like the coat, three miles to the Bowmont plantation. Three miles closer to the first name on his list. The land around him bore the marks of war and neglect.
Smile that hides sorrows: Woman who proved even the most powerless can strike back, became a warning to every slave owner in America
I approached a small farm on the outskirts of Woodville, Mississippi, I had chosen it carefully during my years of accompanying Mistress Evelyn to town. small, poor looking, owned by a man I’d seen wearing the grey coat and broad-brimmed hat favoured by Quakers. Quakers opposed slavery. Not all of them would help a runaway, but some would.
Smile that hides sorrow-1: When her innocent husband was burnt to death by his slave Master Cardwell, she planned revenge…
They accused him of stealing a silver pocket watch, a watch that Master Cordwell’s own son had lost in a drunken stupor down by the river. Samuel never touched it. He couldn’t have. He was with me that entire evening mending the fence behind the quarters.
How the 1849 scandal of Sisterhood of Marcy laid bare dark secrets of Virginia’s high society
Behind doors decorated with imported French wallpaper and carved mahogany frames. Inside the homes of Richmond’s most respected families. Eight women lived in those houses.
Eight names that carried weight in every drawing room in Virginia.
Horrors of slavery-2: How slavery contained within it seeds of its own destruction and reminder that the past lives in systems we inherit
Continued… James Brenner was a lawyer and his law office on March 28, 1847, was busy. He understood discretion. He understood that some problems couldn’t be solved through legal channels or public confrontation. So he did what men in his position did. He reached out to other husbands quietly, carefully,...
Horrors of slavery-2: Abducted into slavery with his mother and sister, Tobias vowed to revenge and did it by impregnating Whites
Tobias left that meeting and went to his quarters. He sat on his bed in the darkness and he smiled for the first time in 15 years. Because Edward Harlow had just handed him the weapon he needed, not the breeding itself. Harlow expected Tobias to stay within the enslaved population. That was the plan. That was what made it profitable.
Horrors of slavery: His job was to impregnate slave women, then impregnated his owner’s wife and daughter
When Sheriff Thomas McKinley drew his pistol, Margaret Harlow, the plantation owner’s wife, stepped forward, her belly opened, her child lying dead at her feet, and she raised her bloodied hands in front of Tobias.
