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Why former slaves were punished but not previously killed.

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Why former slaves were punished but not previously killed.

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According to the Wells & Douglas Letter, it was stated that white slave owners had "owned" both the “body and soul” of a slave. This being said, they had the agenda to make slaves mentally collapse and loose all sense of self worth, but physically keep them in tact. If a slave was to be physically harmed, the injuries would consist of broken legs, arms, etc, all injuries that would generally not risk the life. This was because the stronger and more able a slave is, the more work they would be able to accomplish, and therefore increases their owners financial status.

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Billie Holiday’s song compares the victims of lynching to fruit hanging on trees in the south. It is powerful because although everything in the song is a metaphor, the lyrics don’t sugarcoat anything about what lynching was. A specific example is when the lyrics say “For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop”. (Holiday)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk

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Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" Live 1959 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]

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Statistics of those lynched, convicted, etc.

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Statistics of those lynched, convicted, etc.

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From 1865 to 1872, hundreds of black people were murdered and lynched and the reason why they were killed would be because they were accused of being part of an insurrection or riot. However, there wasn’t even an insurrection or riots, and the people who were killed were never proven guilty.

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The “three distinct excuses” southerners made for lynching.

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The “three distinct excuses” southerners made for lynching.

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Their excuses were that they were trying to repress and stamp out alleged ‘race riots’(fights between races), stop black people from exercising their right to vote(which they did not believe they had to respect that right), and that black people had to be killed as punishment for assaulting or raping women because since there was no way a white woman would willingly have a relationship with a black man, it had to be rape.

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Well’s reasoning for why southern White men were hypocrites when it came to “chivalry.”

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Well’s reasoning for why southern White men were hypocrites when it came to “chivalry.”

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Chivalry includes women of all races, so by only being chivalrous towards white women, southern white men have no chivalry since there is no true virtue or respect.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States," (n.p., 1895): 57-64. http:/www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14977.
Meeropol, Abel. Strange Fruit. 1937