Lucy Worsley explores the harrowing case of Cloe, a Black enslaved teenager in early 19th-century Pennsylvania who drowns two young girls from her enslavers' family. Cloe is worked to the bone and constantly beaten. Were her actions those ...See moreLucy Worsley explores the harrowing case of Cloe, a Black enslaved teenager in early 19th-century Pennsylvania who drowns two young girls from her enslavers' family. Cloe is worked to the bone and constantly beaten. Were her actions those of a cold-blooded killer or an act of desperate resistance against oppression? And are Black women still treated unfairly by the American justice system?
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