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The Senator Hunted A Fat Slave For Fun… But He Didn’t Know He Was The Real Prey (1858 Georgia)
The air in October 1858 did not merely carry the crisp cooling bite of a Georgia autumn. It was saturated…
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110-Year-Old Photograph Found — And Experts Are Shocked by What Appears in the Window!
The photograph arrived at the Chicago History Museum in a Manila envelope, part of a routine estate donation. Margaret Sullivan,…
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An enslaved giant crushed the auctioneers, shocked everyone, and took his freedom by force in 186
Mississippi, February 1864. Posters plastered on the walls of Vixsburg announced something that seemed straight out of a freak show….
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2 Black men were given the hands of 2 twin women by the master because they were infertile, 1859.
They called us the damaged daughters of Belmont. And after watching every girl in our social circle marry while we…
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The widow who owned a Charleston plantation and became pregnant three times by the same enslaved man
Welcome to the channel Stories of Slavery. Today we’re going back to 1839 to Charleston where a powerful plantation widow…
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How One German Woman POW’s ‘STUPID’ Potato Trick Saved 3 Iowa Farms From Total Crop Failure
Iowa, United States, late April 1946. The spring Thor had arrived 3 weeks late, and Ernst Müller stood at the…
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“I’ve Been Waiting for You,” Said the Master’s Wife — What The Slave Did Shocked Everyone
I’ve been waiting for you,” she had whispered. And in that single confession, everything changed. In a grand house filled…
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The incredible story of the Black twins considered gifted — an impossible secret to explain (1862)
Welcome to the channel Stories of Slavery. Today we’re going back to 1862 to the incredible story of two black…
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(1855, Enoch) The Black boy so blessed that, inexplicably, no disease ever touched his young body
Welcome to the channel Stories of Slavery. Today’s story takes us back to 1855 where we follow Enoch, a young…
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SOJOURNER TRUTH: The first Black woman who fought against the American courts and saved her son
Welcome to Stories of Slavery. In 1826, a mother discovered her 5-year-old son had been sold illegally and taken hundreds…
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A Mississippi master bought a giant gorilla — but a slave did something unexplainable in 1879
The iron cage rattled against the wooden planks of the steamboat as it made its way up the Mississippi River…
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This 1861 photo looked serene — until experts zoomed in on the slave’s hand and saw a hidden detail
This 1861 portrait appeared serene until experts saw the enslaved man’s hand. Dr.Sarah Mitchell wiped the dust from the glass…
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“You’re Not Leaving Tonight,” Said the Master’s Wife to the Slave, What Happened Next Shocked All
You’re not leaving tonight, she whispered to the man in the darkness. But what happened in the moments that followed…
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The master’s wife is shocked by the size of the new giant slave – no one imagines he is a hunter.
Catherine Marlo stood on the verand of Oakidge Plantation, fanning herself against the oppressive August heat when she saw him…
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(1859, Thomas Wiggins) The Black boy who played piano like Mozart — but never spoke a single word
Welcome to the channel Stories of Slavery. Today’s story takes us to 1859 to the life of Thomas Wiggins, a…
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A master in Georgia used the mother of 2 giant twins to control them – but she died, and fury awoke
When the parish doctor arrived at the Harrove plantation that August morning in 1857, the first thing he noticed was…
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The Widow Who Made Her Three Sons Swear To Share One Slave Wife—The Night Their Oath Broke, 1846
I first saw the three graves on a Sunday evening when the swamp light was turning everything the color of…
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During the restoration, experts found a hidden detail in the slave girl’s clothing no one saw before
During the restoration, experts discovered a hidden detail in the slave girl’s clothing that no one had noticed before. Dr.Sarah…
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When Experts Examined This 1913 Wedding Photo, the Groom’s Ring Left Them Speechless
Dr.Rachel Foster hunched over her desk in the forensic history department at Boston University. She was examining a wedding photograph…
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A 1912 Wedding Photo Looks Peaceful — But Zoom In on the Bride’s Hand
In April 2024, Emily Harrison, a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of History, was cataloging a recently acquired collection of…
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