On March 5, 1869, Minnie Gaines, a black woman, was charged with murdering her white lover. Gaines was a freedwoman from Fredericksburg, Virginia. The man she was charged with murdering was her lover, James Ingle, a watchman at the Department of Interior. On the night of the murder, Gaines comforted Ingle and demanded that he […]

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