I have been force-marched along with my forebearers through the thick jungle and bush, across mile-wide rivers, and burning deserts to the coast, sometimes for hundreds of miles.I have actually visited many of the “slave castles” – dungeons – which dot Africa's West Coast and where the captured men, women and children were warehoused like so much cattle or cord wood (chattel) until an English, French, Dutch, Spanish or American slave ship appeared on the horizon to transport them to a new life of endless unpaid, forced labor in the so-called “New World.”And, of course, as stated, I've done the reading, watched the movies and documentaries, about the absolutely indescribable horror of the damnable voyage across the Atlantic that has come down to us as “The Middle Passage.” Indeed, on every single flight I've made back and forth across that vast and angry ocean, I look down from 35,000 feet at its turbulent waters. … some would be infants, some would be a year old, he said some would be toddlers, he said they would grab these children and take them down to the swamp, and leave them in pens like little chicken coops.They would go down there at night, take these babies and …. Over $15.00 - apply Price filter. Some say it was done by white men during slave times in Florida and Louisiana a…
Naw ... didn't think so.White folks don't owe black folks anything, right?Just like they don't owe the Indians a damn thing, either – except maybe a few casinos. They start out immediately for the howling infant.
We cannot demonstrate that no infant anywhere, irrespective of color or creed, was ever used as reptile bait. Beef lung floats. To prepare the bait prior to hunting for maximum results, we recommend pre-decaying by leaving outdoors in the sun for a few hours in a covered bucket. tie them up, put a rope around their neck and around their torso, around here, and tie it tight.… they’d be screaming. Finally, they did not tell us about "a lot of things that white folks did to us" "down South," she said. 4-7lbs. True alligator gar 3.5-4" Nice Fish. May 10, 2017 - Explore Wesley Smith's board "Alligator Bait - Black Infants" on Pinterest. ""Two Supervisor-level employees, who have since been terminated, made poor decisions including displaying a sign that they created. Finally, in terms of iconography, from at least the 1890s to the 1960s, black children were often pictured as alligator bait – as toys for white children, soap dishes, toothbrushes, ash trays, and especially on postcards sent through the US mail. These white people were sick beyond belief. Once they had all successfully "escaped" the South, they wanted to put those years behind them, and build new lives here "up North," she concluded.And so it is that I am thankful that the Internet has provided an opportunity for black people to regain their stolen history – not just as victims of white America but as the descendants of powerful empires and nation-states which once put Europe to shame in terms of wealth, land, population, health, education, and most importantly, in terms of justice.Did you know that black babies were often used as bait for alligators in the swamps from Texas to Florida. $70.00 +$0.00 shipping. The activity is retold in various forms in researched documents, many found in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Michigan.It has been pretty well documented recently that, during slavery and into the 20th Century, black babies were used as alligator bait in North and Central Florida.One of the most frequently cited sources for said documentation is the Shelved in the museum alongside the many stereotypical representations of “pickaninnies” (a racial slur applied to African-American youngsters) speaking fractured English, eating watermelon, catching opossums, etc., are similar cartoonish Most of these ugly images (evidently regarded as humorous in their day) are variations of the scenes depicted in the vintage postcards below (courtesy of Likewise, the representation of black children as “alligator bait” was perpetuated in motion pictures and popular song — for example, the not-so-sweet lullaby “Mammy’s Little Alligator Bait,” composed by Henry Wise and Sidney Perrin in 1899:Despite confirming the widespread dissemination of such grotesque representations of African Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries, however, the existence of these artifacts does not suffice to prove that black children were An article on the Jim Crow Museum’s web site African American babies being used as alligator bait really happened, and it happened to real people. I didn't until today. “Alligators in Summer Home.”Pilgrim, David.

Under $10.00 - apply Price filter. $7.50. NOW YOU KNOW.Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.Our mission is to unite every black family world wide ,We seek to foster a more unified and stronger black community in which our community is included and valued, by sharing ideas based on the challenges we .Black Babies used as Gator Bait? Again, I've read the books.But I also talked extensively with my own now deceased parents and grandparents (on both sides) about their “treatment” from the 1920s right straight through to the 1960s in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri and Arkansas. In its issue for Oct. 15, TIME printed the fact that the report had been circulated, but in no wise vouched for its authenticity.

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