Revival History

With nylon stockings scarce, women would paint their legs so it looked like stockings, 1940s  When the United States entered the war, DuPont shifted nylon production to a war footing, and production was channeled into national defense uses, including parachutes and bomber tires, and supplies of nylon for stockings dried up. A new fashion arose from the nylon ration. Liquid stockings, it was called. A foundation for your legs is applied carefully and evenly for the illusion of a hose. Advanced users got even more realistic by using black eyeliner pencils to draw the “seam.” Drawing in the seam-line on “Makeup” stockings with a device made from a screwdriver handle, bicycle leg clip, and an eyebrow pencil.

 Larcena Pennington Page (January 10, 1837 – March 31, 1913), born Larcena Ann Pennington, was an American pioneer known for surviving a kidnapping by Apache as a young married woman of 23 years old in present-day Arizona. Left for dead and unable to stand, she crawled 15 miles (24 km) over the next sixteen days to reach safety. After her kidnapping, Larcena was indirectly involved in several other incidents with Apache. Much of her family died during her life as a result of native attacks or infectious diseases on the frontier. 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 Born Larcena Ann Pennington, in Nashville, Tennessee, she was the daughter of Elias and Julia Ann Pennington. One of 12 children, she had seven sisters and four brothers. Her father, Elias, was the son of Elijah Pennington, a soldier who served under General George Washington at Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War. Her mother Julia Ann Pennington died within a year after the birth of her twelfth child while her husband was...

•~A CLASH OF HEADS.~• It was a meeting of heads, They both went into the dark, Where their moans couldn't be heard By people whose ears were like a lake. Heading each other relaxed, Unaware of what lay ahead, They got drunk while sipping the honeyed head, Forgetful of the consequences ahead. They gave the wrong head, Because of the lectures they didn't heed. Now, in the clash of heads, lies the dread, Where once stood life, now lies death's bed.

THE FRANK EMBREE STORY------- PART ONE. July 22, 1899: Frank Embree Today we learn about a Missouri lynching through the pages of The Hays Free Press (Hays, Kansas) dated July 29, 1899: WHIPPED AND THEN LYNCHED. Missouri Negro Meets Death at the Hands of a Mob Near Higbee. MEXICO, Mo., July 24.—Frank Embree, charged with an assault on the 14-year-old daughter of W. W. Daugherty, June 17, near Burton, Howard county, was lynched Saturday morning while on his way with the officers to Fayette to be tried for the crime. He had expected his fate, and a few days ago wrote to his brother in Garnett, Kan., and said good-by. He said if the court cleared him he expected to be mobbed after his relase [sic]. He occupied a cell next to that of Alexander Jester, the alleged murderer of Gilbert Gates. He had feared lynching on his way to Fayette and begged to be taken to Kansas City for safety. The lynching occurred near Higbee, a little place in Howard county. The prisoner was on board a Chicago ...

WHAT SLAVE OWNERS DID ON BREEDING FARMS WAS WORSE THAN DEATH After Congress banned the international slave trade in 1808, the American South faced a critical shortage of labor. The cotton boom in the Deep South demanded hundreds of thousands of new workers, so plantation owners in Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky transformed their lands into human breeding farms. Enslaved women became the most valuable crop. Owners openly discussed the business in letters and agricultural journals. Thomas Jefferson calculated in 1819 that a woman who gave birth every two years was more profitable than the best male field hand. Her children represented a steady 4% annual return on investment. By the 1850s, Virginia alone exported over 6,000 enslaved people per year — most of them children born specifically to be sold downriver to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Young girls as young as thirteen were inspected like livestock. Their hips were measured, teeth examined, and family fertility histories re...

Most Disturbing Things Done With Black Slaves Will Break Your Heart! Imagine the silence of a plantation after midnight. The fields are still. The wind barely moves. Then a door opens. A Black enslaved woman steps out of her enslaver’s room. She isn’t returning from work. She’s returning from another night of sexual violence. Tears run down her face, but no one rushes to comfort her. The other enslaved people know exactly what happened. The enslaver’s wife knows too. Yet no one can stop it. Weeks later, she discovers she’s pregnant. For most mothers, that news would bring hope. For her, it brings terror. She knows the child growing inside her will not be born free. Under the laws of many slaveholding societies, a baby inherited the legal status of its mother. If she was enslaved, her child would be enslaved too. That child could be sold before learning to walk, separated from its mother before speaking its first words, forced to work before reaching adulthood, or, if it were a girl, gr...