Conservatives in 1831 tried and convicted Nat Turner, a Virginian slave of leading a slave revolt. His punishment? Turner was hanged, skinned, dismembered, and his body parts were distributed souvenirs to the family of his victims. I don’t even think …
Free In Name Only
The Civil War is over. And the question remains, what to do with 200,000 largely illiterate, profoundly ignorant to the ways of the world, landless, moneyless, and homeless population? Hello? Anybody? Don’t all raise your hands all at once? After …
It All Starts with Binah
My family begins in America with an adolescent girl named Binah, my 6th great grandmother, an enslaved African who had her first child, a boy, at the age of 12 in 1778. Binah was owned by a man named Darling …