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The Most Dangerous Female Slave in Georgia: She Cut Down Four Masters Who Tried to Touch Her There’s a leatherbound ledger in the Georgia State Archives that most historians refuse to discuss in detail. The pages are brittle now, yellowed with age, but the handwriting is still clear. Plantation sale records from Chattam County, 1851 to 1859. Most entries are routine, a name, an age, a price, a new owner, but one name appears six times across those 8 years, and each time there’s a notation in the margin that makes archivists uncomfortable. The name is Dina, sometimes spelled Dena or Diana depending on who kept the records. And the notation written in three different hands across three different years, says the same thing in slightly different words. Buyer assumes all risks. Previous incidents disclosed. Price reflects condition and history. What incidents could drop a woman’s sale price from $900 to $275 in just 7 years? What history makes three separate clerks warn buyers about risk? The answer is buried in court testimonies, doctor’s reports, and private letters that survivors tried desperately to destroy. Dina didn’t just resist her masters…………

There’s a leatherbound ledger in the Georgia State Archives that most historians refuse to discuss in detail. The pages are brittle now, yellowed with age,...
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