Ellen Bordon: The Woman Who Tortured an Enslaved Woman to Death in a Jealous Rage - TalkAfricana

Ellen Bordon: The Woman Who Tortured an Enslaved Woman to Death in a Jealous Rage - TalkAfricana

In September, 1855, the town of Franklin, Tennessee, was shaken by one of the most horrifying acts of cruelty ever recorded. A woman named Ellen Bordon, driven by jealousy over her husband’s attention to an enslaved Black woman in their household, subjected the woman to nearly two days of unrelenting torture, before eventually killing her. […] TalkAfricana