Maria of Mississippi — The Enslaved Woman Who Boiled Her Master and His Three Sons in Hot Oil on…
YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. — A 38-year-old enslaved cook named Maria carried out one of the most methodical acts of revenge in American history on Christmas Eve 1847, paralyzing plantation owner Edmund Thornwood and his three adult sons with a poisoned gingerbread before boiling each of them alive in the same cauldrons of pork oil they … Read more