Levi and Aggie lived in Georgia. The two lived on separate plantations but often saw each other at corn-shucking parties. Levi would get a pass to visit Aggie every Saturday night to dance the night away.
The pair married in 1843, but their young union wouldn’t last. After only a year of marriage, Levi’s plantation oppressor moved to a different county, and took Levi with him.
Levi and Aggie would go on to marry other spouses out of convenience and raise families. But their love for each other remained. During Reconstruction, Levi learned Aggie was alive and married. He tried to reach her, but their obligations to their families remained.
As the years went by, their love only grew stronger. As the twilight of their lives approached and their respective spouses passed, Levi and Aggie reunited and spent their last years together dancing and playing just as they did in their youth.
The story of Levi and Aggie is tragic yet heartwarming. Despite the myths that Black love isn’t real, these two loved each other through the horrors of slavery and emerged together on the other side.