The albino slave boy was left unattended... until an obese plantation owner bought him.
The albino slave boy was left unattended... until an obese plantation owner bought him. On a humid August morning in 1855, a child stood on an auction block in Savannah, Georgia, and not a single person wanted to buy him. His pale skin and colorless eyes marked him as cursed, dangerous, a bearer of bad luck that no plantation owner would risk bringing onto their property. The bidding started at $20, then 15, then 10. Finally, at just $5, one woman raised her fan. Margaret Dunore, a widow who owned 4,000 acres 12 miles outside the city, paid $12 out of what she called Christian charity. The crowd applauded her generosity. What they did not know was that Margaret had been searching for a child exactly like this one for 3 years. What they could not have imagined was that 73 people would disappear on her property over the next 14 years. their fates documented in ledgers that local authorities allegedly burned in 1861. But one ledger survived, hidden in a foundation wall, discovered during ...