He bought a slave simply to be a nanny for his motherless daughter. But when he discovered what she was…
On March 14th, 1849, the county courthouse in Loun County, Alabama, burned to the ground in what officials called an…
1848 Alabama. Maline Caldwell was being forced to be with a slave while her husband Vernon watched every night for…
November 1849, midnight. Deep in the heart of Georgia, in the master bedroom of Ashb Manor, a woman’s fingers clawed…
In January 1855, on an isolated plantation in Warren County, Mississippi, a woman made a decision that would haunt memories…
There comes a moment in life when you realize that humanity is not guaranteed, that it can be taken away…
I have spent years trying to forget that man’s voice, but it always comes back, sometimes in the middle of…
I was ten years old when a German officer entered the kitchen of my house. He pointed at me, showed…
This testimony was recorded in the early 2000s, 3 years before his death. For 48 years, Noémie Clerveau kept to…
When forensic genealogologists traced seven separate bloodlines back to a single woman in rural Kentucky, they discovered something that shouldn’t…