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.
Before slave trade was abolished in USA, slaves on plantation farms in Texas would receive 150 lashes for offence of dancing without a permit
Hall kept a white overseer and a Black driver beneath him. The driver was an enslaved man given authority to push other enslaved people harder, a position that sat at one of the cruellest intersections slavery could produce.
