"The Black Swan": Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (1824-1876)
Elizabeth Taylor was born and enslaved in the region of Natchez, Mississippi. In the 1820s, her owner Mrs. Holliday Greenfield moved to...
THE HARDEST WORKING WOMAN IN SHOW BUSINESS! - Matilda Sissieretta Jones "The Black Patti" (1869-193
"The announcement of the coming concert of the Black Patti Company Thursday at the Grand shows a programme of musical possibilities. The...
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales- "The Miller's Tale: Robin With the Bagpipe" (l380) Chaucer
"We know that Duine-dubh, a "black man" in Scotch-Gaelic, is "duine-gorm." a "green or blue man," in Irish-Gaelic: and that blue skin is...
