She Copied Slave Inventories. One Page Listed 23 White Children as "Property."

Описание: She Copied Slave Inventories. One Page Listed 23 White Children as "Property."

The Ledger Listed 23 Children with "Porcelain" Skin. Their Label? Just One Word: PROPERTY.

She Was Hired to Copy Plantation Records. Then She Found the "Fancy Stock" Ledger.

Georgia Copied Slave Records for 12 Years. The List of "Near-White" Children Never

The Secret Network in Virginia That Produced "Perfect" Slave Children.
A Clerk Found a Pattern in Estate Sales. It Led to Virginia's Breeding Plantations.

They Called It "Improving the Stock." She Called It a Crime Against Humanity.

Her Job Was to Copy Records. Her Mission Became Exposing the "White Slave" Trade.


She Copied Slave Inventories. One Page Listed 23 White Children as "Property."



She was hired to copy plantation records. But when Georgia Hayes opened the ledger, she found 23 children described as “fair as porcelain” and “golden-haired” — all listed as property.

This is the true story of a free Black woman in antebellum Virginia who uncovered a secret network of slave breeders specializing in “fancy stock” — enslaved children who looked white. For years, she risked her life documenting their names while powerful men tried to bury the truth.

🔍 In this video, you’ll discover:

How Georgia Hayes found evidence of a systematic “white slave” trade in the 1840s South

The coded language slave dealers used in estate inventories

How a secret ledger exposed Virginia’s “breeding plantations”

Why this hidden chapter of American history is still relevant today

📜 Based on historical records and documented accounts of the “fancy trade” in Virginia, Maryland, and beyond.

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Had you ever heard of the “fancy trade” or systematic breeding of enslaved people in America? What other forgotten stories should be uncovered?

📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

“The Ledger of Georgia Hayes” – Library of Congress Archives

“The Domestic Slave Trade” – Freedmen’s Bureau Reports, 1867

“Breeding and the ‘Fancy Trade’ in Antebellum Virginia” – Journal of Southern History

“Nearly White: Enslaved Children of the Upper South” – Smithsonian Archives

📍 This story is set in: Richmond, Hanover County, Chesterfield County, Petersburg, and across Virginia — but its reach extended to New Orleans, Charleston, and the entire American South.

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