Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis Audiobook (Free)

‘Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching tale of love, loss of life, and the risks of intolerance.’–Bustle

In 1892, America was enthusiastic about a teenage murderess, nonetheless it wasn’t her crime that surprised the nation–it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell decided to move as a man to be able to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, however when their love letters were found out, they were forbidden from ever speaking once again. Freda adjusted to this destiny with an convenience that about Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter–and her father’s razor quickly went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée’s neck. Her same-sex like was deemed insane by her dad that very night time, and medical experts agreed: This was an unhealthy and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate nationwide curiosity, Alice spent weeks in jail–including the night that three of her fellow prisoners had been lynched (a meeting which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells). After a jury of ‘the finest men in Memphis’ announced Alice crazy, she was remanded to an asylum, where she passed away under mysterious circumstances just a couple years later.