Scars of slavery-1: No one wanted to marry the colonel’s crippled daughter, so he handed her over to the roughest slave
Eulália had married the colonel five years prior – an ambitious widow who saw Violeta as an obstacle to her own plans. She had two children from her first marriage and always made it clear that Violeta was an unwanted nuisance.
Seven Children-2: Incredible story of how plantation slave sired 7 children with master’s wife, his carbon-copy elder son inherits him
By 1851, as Robert’s health began failing, Samuel had been carrying this knowledge for 18 years. Eighteen years of watching his children grow. 18 years of knowing the oldest Thomas would soon inherit him as property. That his own son would legally own him.
