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.
Is Pope Leo’s ancestry African? Census records trace his geology to mulatto, Black, Creole or free person of colour
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during Portugal’s colonial rule. Leo travelled to the Sanctuary of Mama Muxima, nestled...
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: 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.
Solid gold-2: How slavery created a system of whips, forced labour, destruction of families, denial of parenthood and love as a secret to hide, code and deny
Samuel continued his work as a blacksmith. He was essential to the plantation now. His skills had expanded beyond horseshoes and hinges. He repaired the cotton gin when it broke down. He built a new irrigation system for the rice fields. He designed tools that made the work more efficient.
Elellanena paid him nothing for this. Of course, slaves could not be paid, but she found ways to improve his conditions: better food, a larger cabin, medical care when he was injured.
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-4: Slavery story isn’t about the past, it’s about how the past lives in the present and continue shaping lives today
The story of Samuel and the seven Thornton children forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about how power determines not just who can speak, but what can be officially known.
Stolen from Africa, taken to England: Queen of England called her goddaughter, to history a gift
James Pinson Labulo Davies and Sarah Forbes Bonetta photographed in London in 1862.
Moral of beautiful slave girl story: While slavery poisoned relationships, it also contained potions that were exploited to resist victimisation
Over the following months, James and Margaret grieved separately and together. Their marriage continued, now bound more by shared loss than by the previous strange happiness.
They never spoke openly of what they had shared with Isabelle, but the ghost of those years haunted Belmont Plantation.
How Yemayá, a 17 years old enslaved woman, was impregnated by randy master, died of postpartum complications
Don Fernando had a lawful wife in Spain, Doña Catalina de Mendoza, who visited the island every three or four years and spent the rest of her time in Seville administering the revenues the plantation sent her.
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