Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and

Grim and Mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book,

all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities. The things that we endure shape our identities. For better or for worse, what we go through influences our future decisions. If we don't learn from

our mistakes history is bound to repeat itself. During one of the darkest periods in American

history one young girl refused to let injustice sully her spirit.

It all began on an afternoon in 1835.

12-year-old Ereminta entered a bustling shop in Maryland.

As she stood near the counter,

she noticed a plantation overseer arguing

with a teenage boy.

The Civil War hadn't broken out in the US yet,

and the boy was enslaved, just like Ereminta.

She couldn't help but listen in on their dispute.

Apparently the boy had run away from the plantation.

Now it was the overseer's job to bring him back. Their argument escalated and the man lunged to grab the boy,

but the boy turned and ran, evading the man's grip by a hair. In a fit of rage,

the overseer grabbed a two-pound brick from a nearby shelf and he hurled it toward the boy

But his aim was off. Instead it struck Ariminta on the head with a sickening thud

She collapsed to the floor unconscious blood on the head with a sickening thud.

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