Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at home in Georgia.

Heartbreak Day, also known as New Year's Day, was a day of great fear and sadness for many enslaved families in the United States.

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"

By Olivia B. Waxman — "Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year's Day the worst of any," one 1842 account explained. Here's why.

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