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Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961. [2][3][4] Mae's story was unearthed when she spoke to historian Antoinette Harrell, [5][6] who ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention. Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998), written by a White descendant of slave owners, describes this complex legacy.
In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans owned an estimated 16 million acres of land, but by the turn of the century, 90% of that had been lost or stolen, amounting to a near $326 ...
505. Awards. National Book Award. Ambassador Book Award for American Studies. ISBN. 0345431057. Slaves in the Family (1998) is a biographical historical account written by Edward Ball, whose family historically owned large plantations and numerous slaves in South Carolina.
t. e. Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth. [1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls due to forced inter inbreeding with fellow slaves in ...
Hemings family. Sarah " Sally " Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835) was a female enslaved person with one-quarter African ancestry who was owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, [1] the daughter of an enslaved woman and an English captain ...
Skin is a 2008 biographical drama film directed by Anthony Fabian.It is based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, [1] and the life of Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism.