Their graves are marked with simple stones that read Joseph Freeman 1814 1879 and Rose Freeman 1823 1885. Nothing on the stones indicates their real…

They called it the Hartwell Massacre. When authorities broke into the mansion in March 1868, they found a scene so disturbing that three deputies…
He was cutting, carving. While the other men watched and offered suggestions like they were discussing a piece of furniture being built rather than a…
Most importantly, she learned about the clearing and what happened there. Dr. Y Brennan, with his medical knowledge, was the architect of the tortures. James…
They also found a note written in her last days. I am Rebecca Hartwell. I was married at 13 to a monster. I endured eight…

The dogs stopped barking first. On the morning of October 7th, 1863, three blood hounds trained to track runaways through the Yazu Basin swamps,…
When he arrived in Warren County in June of 1860, responding to a contract from a planter in Claybornne County who’d lost three slaves to…
Some ran, others simply worked more slowly, understanding that the resources to punish resistance were stretched thin. A few, like Jake, waited and prepared. Jake’s…
Not all, just the parts they wouldn’t notice. The rest they think is their doing. Power is invisible. Samuel influence is unseen until it cannot…

No one dared to speak her name aloud. She was young, strikingly beautiful, and different, a truth that drew both fascination and contempt. She…




