1935 News: Dutch Schultz's Racial Insult to Bumpy Johnson — 8 Men Dead in a Week
He needed $800 to buy his family, stole a warship and became the first Black captain in U.S. history
(1865, Sarah Brown) The Black girl with a photographic memory — she had a difficult life
(1912, Joseph) the only Black man who traveled on the Titanic — broke the silence 83 years later
(1851, Moses Grant) The Black boy who spoke to the dead — A MYSTERY SCIENCE CAN’T EXPLAIN
Why Black Marriages Lasted Forever in the 1940s? (The Secret We Lost)
The Blacksmith of Baltimore — The Enslaved Man Who Built Death Traps Masters Couldn’t Escape
The Black Widower: He seduced 13 plantation masters’ wives and took revenge in a BIZARRE way
ПОЛИВАНОВ - лингвист СССР знал 30 ЯЗЫКОВ: создал ПИСЬМЕННОСТЬ для народов, РАССТРЕЛЯН как ШПИОН
(1860, Abigail Foster) The Black girl who sewed extraordinary clothes — but had a terrible life
Nat Turner: The Slave Who Killed 55 in 48 Hours and Terrified the South
THE HUMAN ELEMENT, Somerset Maugham
The Giant Widow Who Was Forced to Work as a Prisoner After Abolition at the Varner–Hogg Mansion
(Christmas 1861) The Mistress Received an Enslaved Boy as a Present — He Was Her Own Son
The Plantation Where 300 Slaves Vanished on Christmas Day — Leaving Only Their Chains Behind
The Profane Affair of the Governor's Wife and the Slave — The Ruin of the Beaumonts, Louisiana, 1847
THE BOOK BAG, A Classic Short Story by Somerset Maugham
(1859, Thomas Wiggins) The Black boy who played piano like Mozart — but never spoke a single word
Harriet Jacobs (Carolina, 1835): The enslaved woman who hid 7 years in an attic to save her children
(1858, Rose) The records listed her as dead in 1858 — she was found alive in Canada in 1901