Creole History

Good Morning POU! We take a look this week at the lives of the placee, women of color who became the lifetime mistresses of wealthy slave owners in the antebellum south. When you hear today's racists yelling that the Civil War was not about slavery but states rights, and the rationale is "because black people owned slaves!!". They don't mean some enterprising field negro … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Little Known Stories of Plac’ees – or rather 18th Century THOTs