Author: Thảo HT

The Atlantic Ocean held many secrets in its depths, but none quite like the ones carried … THE SLAVE BROTHERS WHO CHAINED THEIR CAPTAIN ALIVE IN HIS OWN SHIP HOLDRead more

The Mississippi River had swallowed 3 in of Louisiana soil that spring, and with it any … THE ENSLAVED WITCH WHO SUMMONED AN ANCIENT ENTITY TO TORMENT HER MASTERRead more

They say fire purifies everything it touches, but in the summer of 1842 on Rosefield Plantation … THE SLAVE WOMAN WHO BURNED HER RAPIST ALIVE IN THE SMOKEHOUSERead more

Philadelphia. On a faceless evening sometime in the mid1 1850s, the city seemed to hold its … THE FREE BLACK MAN WHO RISKED DEATH TO RECORD 649 SLAVE ESCAPES—AND UNEARTHED HIS OWN BROTHERRead more

In 1819, in Charleston, South Carolina, a single, fog-shrouded night of two births became the unholy … THE DEADLY PACT OF 1819 THAT DOOMED AN AMERICAN BLOODLINE: MISTRESS AND SLAVE SWITCHED THEIR BABIESRead more

In the suffocating heat of Georgia, 1841, a plantation master made a decision so twisted it … The Plantation Master Who Locked Slaves in the Cellar for His Daughter’s Desire: Georgia 1841Read more

On the morning of October 11th, 1854, the auction house on Charma Street in Charleston witnessed … THE IMPOSSIBLE STORY OF THE MOST DESIRED FEMALE SLAVE EVER AUCTIONED IN CHARLESTON WHAT NO ONE KNEWRead more

No one was ever supposed to know this. The record was not just sealed. It was … Master Bought an Obese Slave Woman for 15 Cents… Discovered Her Hidden Connection her Former OwnerRead more

Listen close now, children of the forgotten ones. Gather around this fire that remembers what the … THE WHIPPING MACHINES OF HELL: SKIN-RIPPING TORTURES THAT TURNED BLACK BODIES INTO BROKEN MEAT ON AMERICA’S COTTON PLANTATIONSRead more

The first scream of the day always came before dawn. It rose from the slave quarters … THE SAHARA’S RAPE FACTORIES: HOW ARAB SLAVERS CASTRATED MILLIONS OF BLACK MEN AND BREEDERED THEIR WOMEN INTO OBLIVIONRead more