The Children's Crusade: Marching to a Sea That Never Parted

<p>In twelve hundred and twelve, thousands followed boy preachers across Europe, certain that God would part the Mediterranean and let the innocent walk to Jerusalem. They crossed the Alps. They reached the shore. And the sea did not move. What happened next — according to legend — was the slave markets of North Africa.</p><p>August Mercer separates the heartbreaking myth from the harder truth: this may not have been children at all, and that makes it worse. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p>