HT9. The “Label” They Used for Mary: How One Enslaved Mother’s Children Were Turned Into Profit (1855)
In the summer of 1855, a plantation record book in rural Mississippi captured a brief line that read, in part: “Mary — prime field hand — age 36 — mother …
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