Midnight Sermons: Preachers Created Coded Messages in Hymns to Plot the Underground Railroad Route

$100,000 Forgery: Enslaved Man Who Mastered the Pen and Created a Passport to Freedom for Hundreds

The Secret School: The Slave Who Taught Hundreds of Children to Read Under the Overseer’s Nose.

The Slave who Lived as a White Man's Son for 10 Years: The Incredible Disguise That Led to Freedom

The 1850 Incident: How One Slave’s Escape Led to the Financial Ruin of an Entire County.

The Slave Who Broke Her Master’s Will Without Lifting a Knife: A Decades-Long Sabotage, 1845.

The Secret School: The Slave Who Taught Hundreds of Children to Read Under the Overseer’s Nose

The Hidden Library: The Slave Who Smuggled 500 Forbidden Books to Educate an Entire Plantation, 1842

Planter’s Lesbian Daughter Who Licked Her Slave Women: Poisoned Entire Family to Protect Her Secret

Moses the Legend: The Slave Who Killed His Master, Married the Widow, and Became Plantation Owner

Georgia Slaves Cried After Tasting Hamburguers for the First Time in Their Lives: New York 1863

Plantation Lady Caught Husband with Male Slave... Sold Both to Same Brothel: Alabama 1851

Efua, the Slave Who Embroidered Her Masters’ Names on Human Skin — No One Slept That Night (1802)

Magdalene, the Slave Who Made Soap from Her Mistress’s Flesh — Vengeance at the Plantation of Fire

Reverend Doyle and Amara, the Slave Hidden Beneath the Church — The Day God Closed His Eyes (1812)

Nana, the Wet Nurse Who Nursed the Devil — The Curse of Savannah (1822)

Mary Grace, the Slave Who Ate Her Mistress’s Heart — Louisiana, 1768

Thomas and the Slave Lover Chained to the Piano — He Died Hearing the Same Song

Rosa Mae, the Slave Who Raised the Planter’s Son and Killed Him at His Baptism (Alabama, 1801)

Moses, the Slave Child Who Slit His Master’s Throat While He Slept — Georgia, 1827

Isabelle, the Planter’s Daughter Who Slept Among the Slaves — Until One Night She Awoke in Flames

The Slave Twins, Salome and Seraphine — They Poisoned the Whole Family with Milk (Mississippi, 1803)

Yara, the Cannibal Slave of Love — She Kissed Her Lovers and They Vanished by Dawn (Louisiana, 1792)

Abena, the Slave Who Wrote Freedom in Her Own Blood — Virginia, 1789

Lucille, the Slave Who Prayed to the Devil — Her Master Awoke Without Eyes (Charleston, 1794)

(1837, Georgia) The curious case of the slave Judith that science has never been able to explain

The macabre fate of the plantation lady who branded her slave lovers with a hot iron: Alabama, 1841.

The Plantation Owner who spied on her male slaves bathing naked in the river: Georgia, 1840.

The Plantation Lady who hid in the slave quarters to watch the slaves having s3x: Mississippi, 1838.

The Attic Room Where 3 Skeletons Were Found Sitting Around a Table, 1857

The tragic end of the Plantation Lady who castrated slaves and dressed them as maids: Georgia, 1838.

The Heiress Who Killed Herself Upon Learning Her Husband Was Half-Slave, 1856

The Plantation’s Daughter Who Held Orgies With Kitchen Slaves — Found With Her Mouth Sewn Shut, 1839

The Freed Slave Joanne from Virginia Who Infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and Strangled Them One by One

The Planter Who Ordered a Slave Beaten — The Voice Kept Calling His Name Until His Death, 1848

The Overseer’s Hat Found on the Well — His Body Never Recovered, 1851

The Heiress Who Secretly Taught Her Slave to Write — The Letters Condemned the Family, 1848

Slave Kofi of South Carolina Who Buried Charms Under the Family’s Beds, 1839

The Runaway Couple of Georgia Who Disguised Themselves as Bride and Groom, 1855

Slave Ruth of Alabama Who Seduced Her Master’s Brother and Planted Poison in His Wine, 1838

The Book of Psalms Where a Slave Wrote the Names of the Dead, 1849

Slave Maria of Alabama Who Bore Twins by Her Master — Raised as White Heirs, 1844

Slave Naomi of Kentucky Who Hid in the Attic and Sang Until the Mistress Went Insane, 1855

Ruth of Virginia, 1858 — The Enslaved Girl Who Haunted the Locked Quarters

Virginia, 1858 — The Family Who Locked the Quarters and Never Opened the Door Again

Two Slaves and a Poor White Farmer Who Massacred the Colonel on Christmas, 1855

Hidden in the Walls — The Fugitive Who Spent 11 Years Listening to the Family’s Secrets, 1837

The Colonel’s Widow Who Paid a Slave to Warm Her Bed — Her Family Burned Her Alive, 1854

The Locked Chest Discovered After 30 Years — Full of Severed Fingers, 1855

The Planter’s Will That Left the Estate to His Bastard Son, 1855

Louisiana, 1850 — The Overseer Who Woke Up Each Day to His Whip Covered in Bl00d

(Bahia, 1846) The Avenger of the Port: The Slave Who Hunted the Captain Who Ruined His Family

The Slave Jonah Who Walked Into the Swamp Singing — The Song Is Still Heard, 1843

(Lisbon, 1859) The Last Slave Ship: Sunk in a Night of Screams and Blood

The Overseer’s Daughter Who Helped Burn the Quarters to Kill Her Father, 1842

(African Coast, 1811) The Slave Ship Rebellion: When the Enslaved Decapitated the Captain at Sea

Slave Abeni of Alabama Who Sang the Forbidden Chant Until the Overseer Went Mad, 1851

The Macabre History of the Slave Master Who Shared His Wife with 7 Slaves: A Horrific Ending

The Fat Daughter of the Planter Was Shunned and Forced to Marry a Slave — Shocking End (1854)

The Untold Story of Elijah: the Freed Slave Who Vanished During the Wilmington Coup — 1898