What Is the Meaning of January First?

The infant mort ity in the nineteenth century was extremely high for african american women who were held captive. It's not of just a question of your children surviving, it's were you to seen them? Those could be the days where that could be the last time you see your 12 year old because he's being hired out. Or your 14 year old is pretty and she's being sent down the river right to be working as a sex worker in one of the new orleans pordellos writes Abbie fisher.