Sublime

the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France. She had a little money, but it was less than little as they would take for all they done. I’m a’most glad on it, though they was so poor! What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal.

The first settler to own land in Waltham was a violent sea captain named John Oldham, also known as Mad Jack. Oldham was murdered off the coast of Block Island in 1636. Winthrop would use the mystery surrounding Oldham’s death to justify a brutal war against the Pequot nation. Prior to the war (which the Pequot people tried to avert) the Pequot

She accompanied the Emperor on most of his campaigns despite fourteen pregnancies over a period of nineteen years.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. Cut you open and rip them out, dripping. Because that’s what you do when you take away someone’s babies—steal their future. Torture

“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”

barouche.

Far braver and more resourceful than her stepdaughter Mary would ever acknowledge, she survived many misfortunes, including a three-month stint in debtors’ prison with two babies.