Slavery & Antebellum South
The Atlantic Slave Trade: How American Ports Built an Economy on Bodies
How American ports built an economy on bodies — the supply chain investors insurance policies and ledger books behind 12.5 million kidnappings.
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Independent history writing about the parts of the American record that get skipped. Every claim here is sourced — check the citations and argue with them.
H.H. Holmes: The Man Who Built a Hotel Designed to Kill People
Before Ted Bundy, before Jeffrey Dahmer, before the phrase “serial killer” had even entered the language, a man in Chicago sat down with architects and designed a three-story building with soundproofed rooms, gas lines he could control from his private office, and a basement fitted with a dissection table,
Ed Gein: The Quiet Man Who Built American Horror
Most people have never heard of Ed Gein, but they’ve met him a hundred times. Every time Norman Bates peers through that motel wall in Psycho, every time Leatherface pulls on someone else’s face in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, every time Buffalo Bill descends into that basement