I've been shaking while listening to this. Near half way through it occurred to me that the "hole with no name" was a stillborn's grave. Sure enough, Tilda mentions a child. A mixed race child was birthed, killed, and it's grave spat on and left nameless in shame, while the child's mother is given a long, painful death in the woods as punishment. The music is lovely, but the story infuriates me and has me shaking in anger. Pray that Mother Columbia strikes down these so-called "righteous" folk for their sins!
Laila Zarrabi Yan that was the one part I couldn't figure out! That makes sense! And I completely agree. It's a well put together song, but the story it tells is bone chilling,
Laila Zarrabi Yan I love your interpretation, it gives a deeper understanding that my own thoughts had not formulated. Instead they went more with "the hole with no name" being for Tilda herself. With her being a black slave, it is likely that her body was buried in an unnamed grave.
This makes a lot of sense! "went moan in the night" could speak of the sex that led to the child and then "We walked through the wood" and "did scream of a child" was taking her away from the main property to give birth. Further evidence that the "hole with no name" was for the child is the fact that her name is sung throughout the whole song and it says that she "don't fit for no grave". The "devil was cast for a black Matilda" would speak of the one who murdered her child and then Matilda herself, who did not get a quick death.
I don’t think it’s the Child’s grave their spitting on, it’s Black Matilda’s grave. And the people doing the spitting are the other slaves. Who while they do not rejoice in her death they do not mourn it either. Because Matilda thought herself better than the field slaves because of her light skin, and so she thought of herself as not being the young master’s sex slave but as his wife and so expected him to acknowledge their child. For her presumption the young master punishes her by dragging her into the forest during an ice storm and leaving her for dead. When she’s found the next mourning she’s buried in an unmarked grave. Mourned by no one: not the father of her child nor the slaves who she did mot show solidarity with in life.
@@blixer8384 I can see it being Matilda's, and from how some lyrics are worded can see how you would come to the conclusion about the slaves. That said, it seems veeeery unlikely. Partially because it makes more sense for the Masters to spit on her grave than her fellow slaves (no matter her hierarchy, a slave is a slave); but also I sincerely doubt Terrance and Saar would ever write a take like that from the perspective of other slaves. That's a one-way ticket to have their audience rain fire on them.
I love the noise used during this and the other videos. It's the whining, metallic noise, that echoes and just gives me chills. One of my favorite sound effects used in American Murder Song.
I don't know where you guys are getting "hallucinating on peyote" from. The way I heard it, a beautiful young slave woman "lured" or seduced the young master who owned her (probably to better her position in life) ("So proud and so fair" "went moan in the night") But the other slaves looked down on her for it, lowering herself to sleep with the white man who owned them all and thus, betrayed her people. ("she done shamed herself" "ain't fit for no grave" "spit down the hole with no name") So she was proud of her new position as mistress, and began to see herself "above her place' so to speak, probably in both the eyes of her own people and whites ("thought herself a wife") They don't think highly of the young master either ("Don't the righteous fall quick?" etc) I'm not really clear on who killed her, other than "we" being the narrators of the song, so it could very likely have been the other slaves ("we walked through the wood") But obviously she didn't want to die and tried to play on her killers' sympathies by claiming she was pregnant ("did scream of a child" but it didn't work ('don't need tear none" I'm guessing they dug a pit in the woods and chained or just left her there ("did rattle and cry" "a long time did die") until she died of starvation/thirst/exposure. Either way she's dead and gone and in their minds, she brought her death on herself for her actions ("she done cast herself") and that kind of woman is a disgrace to her people ("don't fit for no grave") and they feel no remorse as they spit down her grave, which is unnamed. "by the lamb are we saved" could refer either to the fact that her killers feel they'll still get into heaven because their murder was justified...or yet another condemnation of her by implying that she's now in hell for being a bad girl.
Probably...assuaging themselves of their own guilt? Or justifying their own actions by saying that she was outside the grace of God? I dunno, it's fascinating to think about.
So I know I am a little late to this since this song has been out for a few years now, but I finally think that I understand what the song is about and I know that there are a lot of theories that sort of fall together and also are dissimilar from one another. My interpretation of the song is that yes Black Matilda is a slang for peyote and perhaps they are referring to her as someone who has "drugged" the slave owner with her beauty. This leads the "master" into beginning a sexual relationship with the woman. Later, she is found out (most likely by a wife or another slave owner) and they have her hanged in the woods where she "did rattle and cry." While they are taking her out to be hanged she starts crying about being pregnant as a way to maybe prolong her life, but it works against her. The whole "by the lamb are we saved" idea is about a sacrifice being done so that another can be saved (this being the slave woman is sacrificed--and the killing of their child as well--so that the slave owner who has sullied himself with his licentious behavior is now clean of his deeds). The "hole with no name" is where her body is eventually buried after she dies--which apparently takes a while---since she was not fit for a marked "grave". This is just what I hear in the song.
That makes sense but I believe the story as a whole if you put it altogether she was a servant of some kind she was outspoken and beautiful as they say in the first piece. Next we find that she seduced a young master probably a young man part of the family she worked for. We then see that she fell in love as they did the deed. “Don’t the righteous fall quick for a black Matilda” seems to me that they mean he was white and she was black. Which would have been seen as wrong in their time not to mention she was a slave or servant. Next we find they are walking in the woods and she “screams of a child” meaning that they were fighting because she was pregnant. Next we find that he kills her in the woods I believe “rattle and cry” being that she was stabbed or she had her throat cut as both of those would lead to a rattling sound in somebody as their lungs fill with blood. And finally we find that he buried her in an unmarked grave. He spits into the grave to show his distain for her.
Actually this is based on a true story. A black woman was a nurse to two children on a plantation. The madame of the plantation was named Matilda. The nurse was very close to the children so Matilda because known to the Master of the house. He took relations with her and Matilda knew of this. She was friends and respected many of the slaves, letting them learn how to read, and treated them much better than most at the time. (I don't approve of slavery at all, and I think it was a horrible and injust thing) The slaves liked Matilda so when the nurse started talking like she was above all over slaves, and even thought she was higher than Matilda, the rest of the slaves got angry. She was listening into the Masters conversation with a gentleman and he cut off her ear when he caught her. Once the children found out about it they cried and cried and cried. They didn't care about their mother, only their nurse. For Matilda, this was the final straw. She sent her down to the kitchens where the nurse put a small portion of poison into Matilda's food. She ended up becoming ill, but nothing bad. The nurse tried again to kill Matilda, but she poisoned the whole family. The children died, but the Master and Matilda survived. Matilda, heart broken, told her most trusted friends (some of her slaves) where they told the rest of the slaves. That night, they took the nurse and drug her away from her living space while the Master and Matilda watched. The master went inside, he was too ashamed seeing the nurses heavily pregnant body (he pregnanted her) which caused the death of his children. Matilda stayed and watched as they murdered her. Some where angry at her acts towards the white Master, some where angry at her murdering the children and trying to murder Matilda, some where angry at her acting as if she where the queen. She cried for the Master to let her live because she carried his child that would be his only heir. The Master did not come, so she died. They dug a grave and threw her body in it, unmarked, because they thought she didn't deserve to be remembered. Now she is said to be haunting the plantation where she died, as the Gypsy Queen.
So a black Matilda is another name for peyote, which is a type of cactus with psychoactive alkaloids. So a woman from the coast of North Africa of Berber descent (the Barbary Shore) who was most likely sold into slavery somehow ends up ingesting the plant, and has a terrible reaction to it, probably through a tea that the slaver makes for her, and while under the effects of the plant she hallucinates that he's in love with her, and eventually gets so sick that she ends up dying after a miscarriage? At least that's what I'm getting. Regardless, as always, I love your voices in this song, especially how well the different octaves play off of each other!
BoundbyCronus I agree with you up until the hallucination part. I think the slaver lied to her, saying he loved her and all that, possibly slipping her drugs to make her believe him and she believed him until she told him she was pregnant so he killed her/caused a miscarriage that killed her. and the black matilda is a double entendre, like maybe that was her name (Tilda at least) and also how he killed her maybe? who knows lmfao
Xil J I could see that. It almost sounds like she may have become addicted to it, and after having an affair with the "young master" she tried to stay clean, but "the righteous fall quick". Upon discovering that she was pregnant, perhaps the father wanted nothing to do with it, so she ran to the woods and overdosed trying to abort and lie about a miscarriage so he wouldn't stop the affair, but it makes her so sick that she dies a slow and painful death completely alone? She shames herself FOR the peyote, then she gives no mind to it, then she falls to it, the devil was cast, and then tears aren't needed. I think the last two aren't talking about the drug, I think they are referring to her, but the other times seem to be directed towards the plant.
There were many reasons people were refused burial in sacred ground or even markers. This included babies who died before baptism, criminals, and slaves. I don't think witchcraft is a factor.
I believe the story as a whole if you put it altogether she was a servant of some kind she was outspoken and beautiful as they say in the first piece. Next we find that she seduced a young master probably a young man part of the family she worked for. We then see that she fell in love as they did the deed. “Don’t the righteous fall quick for a black Matilda” seems to me that they mean he was white and she was black. Which would have been seen as wrong in their time not to mention she was a slave or servant. Next we find they are walking in the woods and she “screams of a child” meaning that they were fighting because she was pregnant. Next we find that he kills her in the woods I believe “rattle and cry” being that she was stabbed or she had her throat cut as both of those would lead to a rattling sound in somebody as their lungs fill with blood. Whichever was her cause of death we know it wasn’t fast and she slowly died crying. And finally we find that he buried her in an unmarked grave in the woods. As a final f*ck you to her He spits into the grave to show his distain for her.
This is a my read on the story. Matilda was a light skinned enslaved African woman who entered into a sexual relationship with the son of her master. The song indicated she initiated the relationship and seduced the son of her enslaver but given the power dynamics at play between the enslaved and the enslaver I’m skeptical to say the least. Either way Matilda became pregnant and believed she and the young master were in love. But in truth she was just a sex slave, and when the Young Master learns of her pregnancy he kills them both - luring her out to the woods and leaving her to die of exposure. This song is her funeral dirge and the hole with no name is the unmarked grave where she is buried which her fellow enslaved Africans all spit on for her foolishness - for thinking she could save herself by becoming the concubine of the young master.
I think it could be interpreted as a father and son on a plantation The son fell for a black woman (Matilda) probably out of lust and not genuine love. The deep voice is his disapproving father who helps cover up his affair by killing Matilda and putting her in the Hole with No Namez
I know this is really late for the comment, but from what I've picked up it's about a female slave who caught the eye of the "young master" who was probably the son of the plantation owner, who proceeded to use her (possibly under the lie of marrying her based on the line "who thought herself a wife"). After she got pregnant, they had to get rid of her otherwise there would be a disgrace to the family, so they murdered her and buried her in an unnamed and possibly unmarked grave. I may be off, but hopefully that helps.
Indigo Skye I believe the hole with no name is the grave of the child created by the relations. The line about a long time she died implies she slowly died, likely elsewhere. Probably from complications of childbirth
The Song is set during the backdrop of the 1816 Summer Blizzards. During the time period it was common for slave owners to take light skinned slave women as concubines these women often had little say in the matter but some like Black Matilda used this relationship to their advantage. Often times these slaves were seen as sell outs, and to this very day House Slave/Negro/N***** is used as a pejorative for black, brown, and indigenous people who are perceived as have aligned themselves with the interests of white supremacy against their own communities. However this generalization is not universal. A house slave was still a slave and house slaves understood this The German Coast Uprising was led by an enslaved slave driver. The Haitian Revolution was les by a House Slave. Because a House Slave was still a Slave and they understood the importance of not allowing the master to divide them against each other. Matilda didn’t. Matilda was a light skinmed African who thought herself better than the field slave because she was a light skinned house slave fancied by the Young Master. As I said it was not uncommon for Wealthy White Men to take light skinned slaves as concubines and sex slaves. Matilda pursued the young master hoping to elevate herself through the relationship. She thought of herself as if she was the wife of the young master; but a concubine is not a wife and the young master understood this. So one night during a summer snowstorm the young master decided Matilda needed to be put in her place. So he dragged her and their child out into the snow covered woods and he killed the child and left Matilda to freeze in the cold. She was dead by the next mourning, nobody mourned her death. Not the young master and not the field slaves either. They only even showed up to her funeral so they could spit in her unmarked graved before she was buried.
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I've been shaking while listening to this. Near half way through it occurred to me that the "hole with no name" was a stillborn's grave. Sure enough, Tilda mentions a child. A mixed race child was birthed, killed, and it's grave spat on and left nameless in shame, while the child's mother is given a long, painful death in the woods as punishment. The music is lovely, but the story infuriates me and has me shaking in anger. Pray that Mother Columbia strikes down these so-called "righteous" folk for their sins!
Laila Zarrabi Yan that was the one part I couldn't figure out! That makes sense! And I completely agree. It's a well put together song, but the story it tells is bone chilling,
Laila Zarrabi Yan I love your interpretation, it gives a deeper understanding that my own thoughts had not formulated. Instead they went more with "the hole with no name" being for Tilda herself. With her being a black slave, it is likely that her body was buried in an unnamed grave.
This makes a lot of sense! "went moan in the night" could speak of the sex that led to the child and then "We walked through the wood" and "did scream of a child" was taking her away from the main property to give birth. Further evidence that the "hole with no name" was for the child is the fact that her name is sung throughout the whole song and it says that she "don't fit for no grave". The "devil was cast for a black Matilda" would speak of the one who murdered her child and then Matilda herself, who did not get a quick death.
I don’t think it’s the Child’s grave their spitting on, it’s Black Matilda’s grave. And the people doing the spitting are the other slaves. Who while they do not rejoice in her death they do not mourn it either.
Because Matilda thought herself better than the field slaves because of her light skin, and so she thought of herself as not being the young master’s sex slave but as his wife and so expected him to acknowledge their child.
For her presumption the young master punishes her by dragging her into the forest during an ice storm and leaving her for dead. When she’s found the next mourning she’s buried in an unmarked grave. Mourned by no one: not the father of her child nor the slaves who she did mot show solidarity with in life.
@@blixer8384 I can see it being Matilda's, and from how some lyrics are worded can see how you would come to the conclusion about the slaves. That said, it seems veeeery unlikely. Partially because it makes more sense for the Masters to spit on her grave than her fellow slaves (no matter her hierarchy, a slave is a slave); but also I sincerely doubt Terrance and Saar would ever write a take like that from the perspective of other slaves. That's a one-way ticket to have their audience rain fire on them.
I love the noise used during this and the other videos. It's the whining, metallic noise, that echoes and just gives me chills. One of my favorite sound effects used in American Murder Song.
I don't know where you guys are getting "hallucinating on peyote" from.
The way I heard it, a beautiful young slave woman "lured" or seduced the young master who owned her (probably to better her position in life) ("So proud and so fair" "went moan in the night")
But the other slaves looked down on her for it, lowering herself to sleep with the white man who owned them all and thus, betrayed her people. ("she done shamed herself" "ain't fit for no grave" "spit down the hole with no name")
So she was proud of her new position as mistress, and began to see herself "above her place' so to speak, probably in both the eyes of her own people and whites ("thought herself a wife")
They don't think highly of the young master either ("Don't the righteous fall quick?" etc)
I'm not really clear on who killed her, other than "we" being the narrators of the song, so it could very likely have been the other slaves ("we walked through the wood")
But obviously she didn't want to die and tried to play on her killers' sympathies by claiming she was pregnant ("did scream of a child" but it didn't work ('don't need tear none"
I'm guessing they dug a pit in the woods and chained or just left her there ("did rattle and cry" "a long time did die") until she died of starvation/thirst/exposure.
Either way she's dead and gone and in their minds, she brought her death on herself for her actions ("she done cast herself") and that kind of woman is a disgrace to her people ("don't fit for no grave") and they feel no remorse as they spit down her grave, which is unnamed.
"by the lamb are we saved" could refer either to the fact that her killers feel they'll still get into heaven because their murder was justified...or yet another condemnation of her by implying that she's now in hell for being a bad girl.
sianne79 black Matilda is slang for peyote. What does that mean.
I would say the Black Matilda is both the name of the slave and of the peyote, thus symbolizing she was like a drug for the "young master she lured"?
sianne79 what they mean when they say "by the lamb we are saved" is that God (being the lamb) will forgive them for what they have done.
Probably...assuaging themselves of their own guilt? Or justifying their own actions by saying that she was outside the grace of God? I dunno, it's fascinating to think about.
In this case I don't think it means peyote
This song is so hypnotic. I've can't tear myself away from it. It's just so beautiful.
I can only hope that testosterone will one day get my voice as deep as Terrence's voice.
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Testosterone helped my voice get close to Terrance, his music is so much fun and so soothing on the voice.
Ik it's been 3 years, sorry, but update? How's your singing now?
@@KL-hr2kj still not there, but I actually have an appointment in a week for testosterone! :D
So I know I am a little late to this since this song has been out for a few years now, but I finally think that I understand what the song is about and I know that there are a lot of theories that sort of fall together and also are dissimilar from one another. My interpretation of the song is that yes Black Matilda is a slang for peyote and perhaps they are referring to her as someone who has "drugged" the slave owner with her beauty. This leads the "master" into beginning a sexual relationship with the woman. Later, she is found out (most likely by a wife or another slave owner) and they have her hanged in the woods where she "did rattle and cry." While they are taking her out to be hanged she starts crying about being pregnant as a way to maybe prolong her life, but it works against her. The whole "by the lamb are we saved" idea is about a sacrifice being done so that another can be saved (this being the slave woman is sacrificed--and the killing of their child as well--so that the slave owner who has sullied himself with his licentious behavior is now clean of his deeds). The "hole with no name" is where her body is eventually buried after she dies--which apparently takes a while---since she was not fit for a marked "grave". This is just what I hear in the song.
That makes sense but I believe the story as a whole if you put it altogether she was a servant of some kind she was outspoken and beautiful as they say in the first piece. Next we find that she seduced a young master probably a young man part of the family she worked for. We then see that she fell in love as they did the deed. “Don’t the righteous fall quick for a black Matilda” seems to me that they mean he was white and she was black. Which would have been seen as wrong in their time not to mention she was a slave or servant. Next we find they are walking in the woods and she “screams of a child” meaning that they were fighting because she was pregnant. Next we find that he kills her in the woods I believe “rattle and cry” being that she was stabbed or she had her throat cut as both of those would lead to a rattling sound in somebody as their lungs fill with blood. And finally we find that he buried her in an unmarked grave. He spits into the grave to show his distain for her.
Wow... dark but soulful... another great one
Awesome as always!
This might be because I’m freaking out on acid right now, but did anyone else think that the really deep parts were sung by a bullfrog?
Actually this is based on a true story. A black woman was a nurse to two children on a plantation. The madame of the plantation was named Matilda. The nurse was very close to the children so Matilda because known to the Master of the house. He took relations with her and Matilda knew of this. She was friends and respected many of the slaves, letting them learn how to read, and treated them much better than most at the time. (I don't approve of slavery at all, and I think it was a horrible and injust thing) The slaves liked Matilda so when the nurse started talking like she was above all over slaves, and even thought she was higher than Matilda, the rest of the slaves got angry. She was listening into the Masters conversation with a gentleman and he cut off her ear when he caught her. Once the children found out about it they cried and cried and cried. They didn't care about their mother, only their nurse. For Matilda, this was the final straw. She sent her down to the kitchens where the nurse put a small portion of poison into Matilda's food. She ended up becoming ill, but nothing bad. The nurse tried again to kill Matilda, but she poisoned the whole family. The children died, but the Master and Matilda survived. Matilda, heart broken, told her most trusted friends (some of her slaves) where they told the rest of the slaves. That night, they took the nurse and drug her away from her living space while the Master and Matilda watched. The master went inside, he was too ashamed seeing the nurses heavily pregnant body (he pregnanted her) which caused the death of his children. Matilda stayed and watched as they murdered her. Some where angry at her acts towards the white Master, some where angry at her murdering the children and trying to murder Matilda, some where angry at her acting as if she where the queen. She cried for the Master to let her live because she carried his child that would be his only heir. The Master did not come, so she died. They dug a grave and threw her body in it, unmarked, because they thought she didn't deserve to be remembered. Now she is said to be haunting the plantation where she died, as the Gypsy Queen.
Source?
So a black Matilda is another name for peyote, which is a type of cactus with psychoactive alkaloids. So a woman from the coast of North Africa of Berber descent (the Barbary Shore) who was most likely sold into slavery somehow ends up ingesting the plant, and has a terrible reaction to it, probably through a tea that the slaver makes for her, and while under the effects of the plant she hallucinates that he's in love with her, and eventually gets so sick that she ends up dying after a miscarriage? At least that's what I'm getting.
Regardless, as always, I love your voices in this song, especially how well the different octaves play off of each other!
BoundbyCronus I agree with you up until the hallucination part. I think the slaver lied to her, saying he loved her and all that, possibly slipping her drugs to make her believe him and she believed him until she told him she was pregnant so he killed her/caused a miscarriage that killed her. and the black matilda is a double entendre, like maybe that was her name (Tilda at least) and also how he killed her maybe? who knows lmfao
TheCheese06z that makes more sense.
Xil J I could see that. It almost sounds like she may have become addicted to it, and after having an affair with the "young master" she tried to stay clean, but "the righteous fall quick". Upon discovering that she was pregnant, perhaps the father wanted nothing to do with it, so she ran to the woods and overdosed trying to abort and lie about a miscarriage so he wouldn't stop the affair, but it makes her so sick that she dies a slow and painful death completely alone? She shames herself FOR the peyote, then she gives no mind to it, then she falls to it, the devil was cast, and then tears aren't needed. I think the last two aren't talking about the drug, I think they are referring to her, but the other times seem to be directed towards the plant.
It's also likely that she was accused of being a witch, because witches were not allowed to be buried in named graves on hallowed ground
There were many reasons people were refused burial in sacred ground or even markers. This included babies who died before baptism, criminals, and slaves. I don't think witchcraft is a factor.
I believe the story as a whole if you put it altogether she was a servant of some kind she was outspoken and beautiful as they say in the first piece. Next we find that she seduced a young master probably a young man part of the family she worked for. We then see that she fell in love as they did the deed. “Don’t the righteous fall quick for a black Matilda” seems to me that they mean he was white and she was black. Which would have been seen as wrong in their time not to mention she was a slave or servant. Next we find they are walking in the woods and she “screams of a child” meaning that they were fighting because she was pregnant. Next we find that he kills her in the woods I believe “rattle and cry” being that she was stabbed or she had her throat cut as both of those would lead to a rattling sound in somebody as their lungs fill with blood. Whichever was her cause of death we know it wasn’t fast and she slowly died crying. And finally we find that he buried her in an unmarked grave in the woods. As a final f*ck you to her He spits into the grave to show his distain for her.
This is a my read on the story.
Matilda was a light skinned enslaved African woman who entered into a sexual relationship with the son of her master. The song indicated she initiated the relationship and seduced the son of her enslaver but given the power dynamics at play between the enslaved and the enslaver I’m skeptical to say the least.
Either way Matilda became pregnant and believed she and the young master were in love. But in truth she was just a sex slave, and when the Young Master learns of her pregnancy he kills them both - luring her out to the woods and leaving her to die of exposure.
This song is her funeral dirge and the hole with no name is the unmarked grave where she is buried which her fellow enslaved Africans all spit on for her foolishness - for thinking she could save herself by becoming the concubine of the young master.
What key is this in?
I think it could be interpreted as a father and son on a plantation
The son fell for a black woman (Matilda) probably out of lust and not genuine love.
The deep voice is his disapproving father who helps cover up his affair by killing Matilda and putting her in the Hole with No Namez
I love the rest of this album, but I still can't make heads or tails of this song. As best I can tell, it's about a lynching?
I know this is really late for the comment, but from what I've picked up it's about a female slave who caught the eye of the "young master" who was probably the son of the plantation owner, who proceeded to use her (possibly under the lie of marrying her based on the line "who thought herself a wife"). After she got pregnant, they had to get rid of her otherwise there would be a disgrace to the family, so they murdered her and buried her in an unnamed and possibly unmarked grave. I may be off, but hopefully that helps.
Indigo Skye I believe the hole with no name is the grave of the child created by the relations. The line about a long time she died implies she slowly died, likely elsewhere. Probably from complications of childbirth
The Song is set during the backdrop of the 1816 Summer Blizzards.
During the time period it was common for slave owners to take light skinned slave women as concubines these women often had little say in the matter but some like Black Matilda used this relationship to their advantage.
Often times these slaves were seen as sell outs, and to this very day House Slave/Negro/N***** is used as a pejorative for black, brown, and indigenous people who are perceived as have aligned themselves with the interests of white supremacy against their own communities.
However this generalization is not universal. A house slave was still a slave and house slaves understood this The German Coast Uprising was led by an enslaved slave driver. The Haitian Revolution was les by a House Slave. Because a House Slave was still a Slave and they understood the importance of not allowing the master to divide them against each other.
Matilda didn’t.
Matilda was a light skinmed African who thought herself better than the field slave because she was a light skinned house slave fancied by the Young Master.
As I said it was not uncommon for Wealthy White Men to take light skinned slaves as concubines and sex slaves. Matilda pursued the young master hoping to elevate herself through the relationship.
She thought of herself as if she was the wife of the young master; but a concubine is not a wife and the young master understood this. So one night during a summer snowstorm the young master decided Matilda needed to be put in her place. So he dragged her and their child out into the snow covered woods and he killed the child and left Matilda to freeze in the cold.
She was dead by the next mourning, nobody mourned her death. Not the young master and not the field slaves either. They only even showed up to her funeral so they could spit in her unmarked graved before she was buried.
What's this about.
A slave who was being used by her master and when she got pregnant, was killed and buried with her child. I think.
A pregnant black woman who was lynched.