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The Enslaved Boy Who Became Texas’ Most Feared Gunslinger in 1873
Arrival in Dusty Creek Summer, 1873. Dusty Creek, Texas. A tall figure i…
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The Enslaved Woman Who Turned Snakes into Weapons: The Louisiana Viper Avenger
On a cold December night in 1859, an overseer at a Louisiana sugar plantation died in agony inside…
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“I Still Can’t Sit Down” – Surviving the German Camp at 18
Childhood Before the War My name is Madeleine Charpettier. I was ten years old when I first realiz…
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Georgia, 1847: The Plantation Lady Behind One of Slavery’s Most Disturbing Secrets
Beneath the red clay of Burke County, Georgia, lies a story so unsettling that for generations it …
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Georgia (1857): The Panther Queen, the enslaved woman who freed six wildcats from their captors
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German troops' actions before to the births of pregnant French detainees
We brought the pregnant ladies to a room in the sorting center's basement. It was neither a ho…
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The "breeder" woman who gave birth to 22 children and made her master wealthy (1855)
One line from a plantation ledger in rural Mississippi during the summer of 1855 says, in part:
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"Calm down!" When they were hand-fed by the US, the gay inmates were most afraid.
"Calm down, please. It's finished. Softly, the American soldier spoke. His eyes were figh…
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German Women POWs Left Speechless After Seeing Black Soldiers for the First Time
April 29, 1945. The gates of Stalag IX-C , a prisoner-of-war camp near Bad Salzungen, Germany, op…
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