Plantation Wife Had TRIPLETS and Ordered Slave to Hide the DARKEST One. But just one small mistake led to the secret being revealed| 1802, Virginia
Margaret Fairmont thought she had gotten away with her affair until the night her third son was born. While her husband celebrated the arrival of two healthy heirs, Margaret was frantically ordering her enslaved maid to “make the third one disappear.” But Esther didn’t follow orders. Instead, she hid the child in the slave quarters, right under the master’s nose. For years, the boy grew up just yards away from his white brothers, a living ghost haunting the plantation. The moment the truth finally came out is absolutely chilling.
A Birth in the Shadows
Plantation Wife Had TRIPLETS and Ordered Slave to Hide the DARKEST One. But just one small mistake led to the secret being revealed| 1802, Virginia