1851, Virginia Plantation Mistress Married Her Slave in Secret — He Got Everything She Owned
Автор: Whispers in Frames
Загружено: 2025-11-03
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When attorney Augustus Pemberton read Violet Harrington's will in December of eighteen fifty-two, the courtroom erupted in chaos. The wealthy Virginia plantation mistress had left her entire estate—worth over two hundred thousand dollars, including three thousand acres and one hundred seventeen enslaved people—to a man named Daniel Freeman. But Daniel wasn't a distant relative or business partner. He was, until the moment of Violet's death, legally her property. An enslaved man who had served as her house steward for twelve years.
Then Pemberton produced a second document that changed everything: a marriage certificate from Pennsylvania, dated September seventh, eighteen fifty-one, legally binding Violet Harrington to Daniel Freeman as husband and wife. If the marriage was valid, Daniel wasn't just receiving an inheritance—he was claiming it as Violet's legal husband. The four-year legal battle that followed would force Virginia courts to confront questions they desperately wanted to avoid and expose a love story that society claimed was impossible.
But how did a dying plantation mistress and her enslaved steward pull off a secret marriage? What was Violet's real plan for the estate after her death? And what happened when Daniel, a man who had spent his life in bondage, suddenly became the legal owner of over a hundred enslaved people? The answer reveals one of history's most extraordinary acts of resistance from within the slave system itself.
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