In the summer of 1855, a plantation record book in rural Mississippi captured a brief line that read, in part: “Mary — prime field hand — age 36 — mother […]
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HT6. The “Label” They Used for Mary: How One Enslaved Mother’s Children Were Turned Into Profit (1855)
In the summer of 1855, a plantation record book in rural Mississippi captured a brief line that read, in part: “Mary — prime field hand — age 36 — mother […]
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HT7. The Woman Who Stunned the Louisiana Auction: A Rare 1851 Account
PART 1: Lot 402 On an October afternoon in 1851, beneath the broad domed rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, a sale took place that unnerved even […]
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PART 1: Lot 402 On an October afternoon in 1851, beneath the broad domed rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, a sale took place that unnerved even […]
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PART 1: Lot 402 On an October afternoon in 1851, beneath the broad domed rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, a sale took place that unnerved even […]
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PART 1: Lot 402 On an October afternoon in 1851, beneath the broad domed rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, a sale took place that unnerved even […]
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PART 1: Lot 402 On an October afternoon in 1851, beneath the broad domed rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, a sale took place that unnerved even […]
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HT7. (1897, Lydia Johnson) The Black Girl So Brilliant Even Science Could Not Explain Her
The Letter That Reached MIT On a bitter January morning in 1897, a careful, apologetic letter arrived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It wasn’t written by a professor or […]
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The Letter That Reached MIT On a bitter January morning in 1897, a careful, apologetic letter arrived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It wasn’t written by a professor or […]
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The Letter That Reached MIT On a bitter January morning in 1897, a careful, apologetic letter arrived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It wasn’t written by a professor or […]
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