Zz*UNPUB* CASTE Resources - ALA Share: Pillar 7: Terror as Enforcement, Cruelty as Control

Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others who control the general conditions of their lives, including where they live, what they eat, their work, movements, etc. Slave trade is one of the social phenomena in history that is associated with the cruelest and dehumanizing treatments. Since the enslaved people are nothing less than properties in the custody of their masters, they are treated in the most bizarre manners that have no human consideration attached. WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS

Keri Leigh Merritt - Black Perspectives (2016)

Keri Leigh Merritt - Black Perspectives (2016)

Keri Leigh Merritt - Black Perspectives (2017)

Keri Leigh Merritt - Black Perspectives (2017)

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (n.d.) This primary source document from the Georgia Ku Klux Klan is an example of the type of threats for which the KKK became known. In this case, the target was Davie Jeems, a black Republican recently elected sheriff in Lincoln County, Georgia. This links to an excerpt. There is a link with8n to full transcript. (The transcript contains language that may be offensive to some readers.)

Tim Madigan - Smithsonian Magazine (Apr 2021) A century ago in Tulsa, a murderous mob attacked the most prosperous black community in the nation - the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Tim Madigan - Smithsonian Magazine (Apr 2021) A century ago in Tulsa, a murderous mob attacked the most prosperous black community in the nation - the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of Black Georgians, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage.

In 1897, North Carolina’s Democratic Party decided to embark on a white supremacy campaign to try to drive Populist and Republican politicians out of office during the 1898 election.

Jennifer Rae Taylor - American Bar Association’s Human Rights Magazine (5/16/2019) The experiences of African Americans murdered and terrorized by mob violence for generations between Emancipation and the struggle for civil rights, alongside the virtual inaction of local and federal law enforcement and lawmakers, lay the groundwork for the inequality and injustice we face today. Understanding the current system’s roots in racism and dehumanization is critical to extracting the problem and growing something better.

Kurt Terry - Waco History (n.d.) Detailed history of the racially motivated lynching of Jesse Washington, an African-American seventeen-year-old farmhand.

From Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Narrative by John Brown (1854) of the story of severely whipped enslaved man, John Glasgow.