Author: Thảo HT

Gather around now, souls of the living and the watchful dead. Pull close to this fire … BOUND TO THE WHIPPING POST AND STONED UNTIL THE DAY BETTY MOORE IMPALED THE SLAVE TRADER WITH A PITCHFORKRead more

Now listen to me because this story, it happened a long time ago. Back when the … THE LADY WHO DISCOVERED HER DAUGHTER WITH 5 SLAVES… AND PUNISHED HER PUBLICLY – ATLANTA 1844Read more

Welcome to this journey into one of the most unsettling accounts ever whispered through the corridors … AN OLD MISSISSIPPI STORY ABOUT TWIN SISTERS WHO WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE SEPARATERead more

The discovery was made on a Tuesday morning in March 1847. A cotton merchant from Savannah … CRAWFORD CHILDREN (GEORGIA, 1847): THE SLAVE CHILDREN WITH ONE WHITE FATHERRead more

The 4th of July 1,856. While America celebrated freedom with fireworks and speeches, a different scene … JOSEPH CARTER: THE SLAVE WHO HUNG HIS OVERSEER FROM THE OAK TREERead more

Master Silas Thorne whipped his cook for a burnt crust, never realizing he had just signed … THE KITCHEN SLAVE WHO GROUND RUSTY NAILS INTO THE MASTER’S BREAD DOUGH: THE SLOW TETANUS!Read more

Have you ever heard a story so disturbing that you wondered why it was never written … THE APPALACHIAN SISTERS TOO DARK FOR HISTORY BOOKS: CLARA & MABELRead more

The summer of 1789 clung to Charleston like a funeral shroud, humid, suffocating, and impossible to … THE PROFANE UNSPOKEN SECRETS OF PLANTATION WIDOWS & THEIR MALE SLAVES: THE AFFAIR THAT SHOCKED SOUTH CAROLINARead more

Plantation records from northeastern Alabama show an entry from March 1,856. That doesn’t make sense. 12 … THE BLACK MAN SO STRONG THAT TWELVE OVERSEERS COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIMRead more

In 1864, 23 children were found locked in the basement of a Georgia plantation. They all … THE PLANTATION LADY WHO BRED SLAVES WITH HER OWN SONS — GEORGIA’S SECRET OF 1847Read more