As for Elizabeth Becker, the 24-year-old who had once dreamed of becoming a model, her execution was a sobering end to her brief but violent…
In a society that prized strength and control, sickness granted a strange kind of privacy. When she reached the counter, the clerk glanced up briefly,…
When Ellen emerged from the first class car, moving slowly with the cane there, eyes met for the briefest second. No recognition passed between them…
Inside, Ellen closed the door and leaned against it, eyes shut, the cane slipping from her hand to clatter on the floor. For several seconds,…
“Somewhere in the city, the woman from the platform might still be thinking about the servant who looked so much like her brother’s Ned. Somewhere,…
Patterson’s knock on the door was soft but insistent, pulling Ellen and William from the shallow, anxious sleep they had finally fallen into. Neither had…
William and Ellen became sought-after speakers on the abolitionist lecture circuit, but their testimony was different from others who had escaped bondage. They didn’t just…

Following the Second World War, a number of trials were held to bring the perpetrators of war crimes committed during the conflict to justice. The…
a top hat that would shadow her face, trousers, a coat, and a high collared shirt that would conceal her feminine shape, and most crucially,…
But their story has traveled much farther across generations and continents, carrying a message that remains as relevant now as it was in 1848. That…
