
The master of Mississippi always chose the weakest man to fight, but no one expected what came next. In the heart of Mississippi in 1858,…

The rope fibers left marks on both sides of the oak branch. One set shallow, frayed within hours. The other cut deep into living wood,…

In the frozen winter of 1857 on the remote Thornhill plantation in the mountains of western North Carolina, a 12-year-old enslaved black boy named Joseph…

Louisiana, September 1862. The Belmont Plantation sat on the edge of the Achafallayia basin where civilization ended and the swamp began. It was a world…

Daughter, mother, and grandmother flee slavery in 1887 — but something follows them in the dark Georgia 1887. Three generations ran together through pine forests…

Mississippi mil 1873. In the suffocating heat of Mississippi in 1873, a young enslaved woman was purchased to care for the master’s daughter. It wasn’t…

South Carolina 1859. A boy named Thomas stood [music] kneedeep in the Kataba River, his hands numb from the cold water, searching for something he…

No one could have predicted that the two identical girls standing on that auction block in Richmond, Virginia on March 15th, 1839 would meet again…

April 19th, 1945. A forest in Bavaria, Germany. 31 German women were trapped inside a wooden building. Flames surrounded them. Smoke filled their lungs. They…

April 19th, 1945. A forest in Bavaria, Germany. 31 German women were trapped inside a wooden building. Flames surrounded them. Smoke filled their lungs. They…




