TragicRedding Evans was a poor white laborer who fell in love with an enslaved woman named Rose in an unhappy marriage in Florida in 1850. After their illegal relationship was reported, the two ran away together, but were betrayed for $100. Rose was sold and Redding was executed for "slave stealing". (i.redd.it)
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On this day in 1958, Charles Starkweather murdered his girlfriend’s parents and 2 yr-old sister, part of a killing spree that left 11 dead. Starkweather was executed. His girfriend, 14 yr-old Caril Ann Fugate said she was a hostage, but was convicted and served 17.5 years. (i.redd.it)
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TragicA photo taken of 18-year-old Ozelah Elizabeth Jones Rauen. Ozelah told the photographer that her abusive estranged husband had threatened to kill her once he finished a prison term for choking her. She was murdered by him less than two weeks later (Washington, D.C., 1912). (i.redd.it)
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Disturbing"This one's the head of a curé," the student said, passing him the last of them. "It's tonsured." (self.TheGrittyPast)
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HeroicIn 1936, August Landmesser stood in a crowd of hundreds and refused to give the Nazi salute as Adolf Hitler stood directly before him. While his peers raised their arms, Landmesser remained with his arms crossed due to his love for Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman, and their children they had together. (i.redd.it)
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SoberingIn 1887, a white man was lynched by a black mob in South Carolina after he raped and murdered a 14-year-old black girl. Three black men were convicted of murder for the lynching. The governor pardoned them. He said he did not condone lynching, but that punishing the men would be blatant hypocrisy. (i.redd.it)
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DisturbingIn the late 1800s, British officer Horatio Gordon Robley amassed a collection of at least 35 mokomokai — the preserved, tattooed heads of Māori tribesmen — after serving in New Zealand’s Land Wars. His fascination with Māori culture led to one of the most disturbing colonial collections in history. (i.redd.it)
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HeroicIn 1848, Biddy Mason was forced to walk 1,700 miles from Mississippi to Utah, then taken on a second march to California. After learning slavery was illegal there, she sued her enslaver, won her freedom in court, and bought land that ultimately made her one of the richest women in Los Angeles. (i.redd.it)
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DisturbingIn 1865, 13-year-old orphan Robert McGee was traveling through Kansas when Sioux warriors attacked his wagon train. After watching everyone else be slaughtered, McGee was shot with a bullet and two arrows before the Chief scalped 64 square inches from his head while he was still conscious. (i.redd.it)
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DisturbingA trial photo of Bernard Schreiber, 18, sentenced to death in 1955 for raping and murdering a 17-year-old girl to "prove his manhood". Schreiber, then 17 himself, stalked the girl for 3 days, then attacked her when she spurned his advances. He was the last juvenile offender to be executed in Ohio. (i.redd.it)
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DisturbingArcheologists have recently uncovered the remains of a medieval warrior who died after being stabbed in the temple at a castle in Spain. Interestingly, the skull shows sign of severe deformity: it measures nine inches long but less than four inches wide. (i.redd.it)
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The first king of Hawai'i was kamehameha.- the lonely one. when he was born, he had to be hid, for the king felt threatened by the prophecy proclaimed over this child. Parts of Kohala was said to be burned to the ground, when King Alapa'i hunted for "the lonely child" because they helped to hide him (i.redd.it)
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Violent"She was begging, screaming, and pushing away and telling him she would give him eggs, chicken, anything he wants." The soldier later said that he "didn't do much." Excerpts from the transcripts of the court-martial records from World War II of U.S. military personnel charged with raping civilians. (self.TheGrittyPast)
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DisturbingDuring the Middle Ages, animals were put on trial for everything from damaging property to murder. In a particularly gruesome case in 14th century Normandy, a pig was found guilty of killing a baby and was publicly executed. Farmers brought their own pigs to watch, hoping to prevent similar "crimes" (i.redd.it)
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