Race and class: In public Slave Master called Esther his ‘property’ but in a letter ‘more wife to me than any peace I have known’
For 14 years, she had moved through Cole House like a shadow trusted to carry trays, letters, silence, and shame. But by the time she stepped out into the hall with the banker downstairs and the hidden desk waiting in the dark, she knew the night had changed.
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.
Truth doesn’t need permission: How first Black woman to own newspaper reshaped American politics
When the founder, John Neimore, fell ill in 1912, he asked Charlotta to take over as editor. She had never run a newspaper. She had no formal journalism training. She was a Black woman in an industry dominated by white men. She said yes anyway.
Black Widow: Freed slave Celeste Defrain harboured revenge and exacted it by seducing, slitting throats of 11 White men
People found it hard to put into words what it was about her that made them uneasy. She was always tidy and behaved properly, but there was something about her that made them feel uneasy. The coloured workers at the hotel were more helpful, but only when they were asked in private and promised safety.
