A NEW ORLEANS CEMETERY The Rev. Makepeace Bliss is a disbarred, disgraced doctor who, by the 1830s, has immersed himself deeply into the shadowy and dangerous criminal underworld of waterfront New Orleans. An accomplished petty criminal, he survives by treating bullet wounds, performing back alley abortions, and robbing
Ashok Behram is the son of Thug Behram, leader of the Thuggee murder cult of India that killed thousands of people during their reign of terror that lasted from the late 17th until the mid-19th century. Thug, the "King of Thugs" admitted to taking part in 927 murders, and personally strangling
Vintage engraving of a Plantation Master with whip at the Slave market, while a man begs not to be separated from his son and daughter. From the anti slavery story De planter brunel en zijne slaven asa en neno, by Henderikus Christophorus Schetsberg, Netherlands. 1858. Francois Devol is
