https://padlet.com/dyl1025/k6iijd9rt5ac How the 13th amendment made economies grow. en-us 2016-10-21 01:28:17 UTC 2024-04-30 14:03:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pumpkin.png dyl1025 https://padlet.com/dyl1025/k6iijd9rt5ac/wish/133130108 On February 6th, 1876 a negro man named Williams was arresting for killing a white man named J. M. Baker. He was a farmer in Cameron, Texas. Williams shot Baker while he was riding home after disposing bales of cotton and other items. Williams was seen committing this crime by a unspecified outsider. Williams was thought to commit the crime because of greed based on the $35.00 he had when he was apprehended. Williams wanted money from Baker. After Williams was apprehended, he was tried and found guilty. He was taken to a blacksmith to be shackled and then brought to a jail house to be held until his sentence was met, which was death by hanging. Before Williams was able to serve his sentence, a mob of citizens surrounded the jail, told the jail guards that they demanded they hand over Williams, which the guards did. Williams was taken to a camp site and was burned by the mob.

              The 13th amendment was ratified on December 6th, 1865. This stated that all Americans are free, but there is a catch; criminals are not. After the civil war, there were several economic struggles in the south. This, and the 13th amendment, allowed for a loophole to essentially make slavery justifiable. The number of African American arrests increased greatly because of the vagrancy law. This created a "vision" and preconception of African Americans as criminals and allowed for slavery to become legal in a sense. 

              Towards the end of the newspaper article, Williams' body was discovered, he was thought to have escaped from prison and his cuffs, but was caught in the midst of doing so,  Williams was shot and THEN burned. "Criminals" in this kind of society HAD to be the FIRST to make a wrong and were always threatening white society and they needed to be handled. Whether it were true or not, southerners tried to justify the brutal punishments for AA people. Because of the "vision" and preconception of what a criminal LOOKS like, in the eyes of the south, criminals are black, not white. Criminals are not human and deserve harsher sentences than "regular Americans". In theory, as long as the south can keep AA labeled as criminals through legislature and by popular vote,  the south is able to make money off of free labor, just like slavery.  ]]> 2016-10-25 18:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dyl1025/k6iijd9rt5ac/wish/133130108 meyerjj https://padlet.com/dyl1025/k6iijd9rt5ac/wish/133802529              This video is about how white people thought of the blacks as nothing. Their lives meant nothing to local whites, they would have hangings in the middle of the town with hundreds of people watching. In the video, it says how African American churches, government, and business were the center of all this chaos that was going on and that if any African American tried to defend themselves, that person, and potentially their family, would be killed. White people had no consideration for anything the African Americans wanted to do; if they stepped on the toes of any white business people or government officials they would burn down African American churches and homes. There would be people that took pictures of the hangings and make thousands of copies and walked door to door selling these pictures to white people in their neighborhoods. People didn’t care if they were taking another life it was like entertainment to them and they just laughed about it and put pictures up in their house. There was an incident where a 17-year-old boy who was mentally challenged was accused of killing his owner’s wife. The people in town took him to a tree, tied him up, and when he tried to climb the tree they cut all his fingers off so he could not move and then burned him alive. People in this time treated African Americans like they were animals threw them around and roasted them like one would a pig. They didn’t feel guilty about this and hundreds of people watched. As long as AA were making economies grow, others would not intervene with the neglect at hand. ]]> 2016-10-28 02:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dyl1025/k6iijd9rt5ac/wish/133802529 ecke https://padlet.com/dyl1025/k6iijd9rt5ac/wish/133807531             The website below is absolutely loaded with information surrounding the injustices served to the black community for decades upon decades in the United States, even following the period of slavery. However, apart from the introductory paragraphs, there are two specific sections readers should focus on in connection to the main article of this newspaper. Both the "Reconstruction" and "Social Characteristics" are further evidence of, not only how lynchings were carried out, but also the social motives behind many such as that of Williams'.
            The "Reconstruction" section from The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum's website depicts that there were multiple reasons given for mobs or the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize and murder African Americans. Motives that varied from political standpoints to just pure racism. However, it is not until the "Social Characteristics" that these aspects are more closely addressed. For example, the website states that "there were often two motives for lynching... the social aspect... [and] the economic aspect." Both of these aspects tie into Williams' story in terms of the mob that pursued and murdered him. The social threat is clear in that Williams could have been viewed as one of the blacks who were "threatening white society," as earlier stated, for he was found guilty of murdering a white man out of greed. Therefore, not only did he pose a threat by killing someone, but just simply obtaining money that could grow, if his habits continued, "threatened" white society because Williams would eventually become an African American man with a substantial amount of money, something much of the white, Southern community would have been displeased with. The economic side isn't quite as clear in Williams' case. Although, the argument could be made that, had William's sentence gone another way and he had not been burned alive by a mob, Williams may have been forced to work off his crime for an extended length of time for such a severe crime, a punishment that could have economically benefited a white farmer and a process that aids the white community as a whole.

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