J. C. Hallman

Dec 27, 2023 | medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman

[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.] In our last essay, we found Anarcha’s final resting place. She died in about 1870, and was buried in the woods on the former Alto plantation. Fifteen years later, her husband was buried alongside of her. Today, in the last installment of the Anarcha Archive, we’ll look at what can be said about her final years.

Dec 23, 2023 | medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman

[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.]In this essay, we’ll begin to look at the final turn of Anarcha’s life. Where she would be married, where she would have her final children, and where she would become free. For a long time, as I searched for Anarcha, I was stuck here, at Old Mansion, in town of Bowling Green, in Caroline County, Virginia.

Dec 22, 2023 | medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman

[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.] In previous essays, we looked at Anarcha’s life at Old Mansion in Bowling Green, Virginia. Today, we will continue to look at those years and begin to look at the final steps of her life. As we saw earlier, Anarcha was living here as of about 1854.

Dec 4, 2023 | medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman

CHAPTER THREE — THE FATHER OF ANARCHA’S FIRST CHILD[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.]When J. Marion Sims, the so-called “father of gynecology,” was first called to Anarcha’s case, it was to perform a forceps delivery of Anarcha’s first baby.

Dec 2, 2023 | medium.com | J.C. Hallman |J. C. Hallman

[The Anarcha Archive is a series of short essays about the sources for Say Anarcha. A great deal more about the sources can be found at AnarchaArchive.com.]Anarcha was experimented on by the surgeon, J.