My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.
Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.
My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.
I did not know this
I didn’t either and it breaks my heart to see stuff like this. To hear of more darkness that was just swept under the rug like this.
Here’s an article with more information about Mae’s family and her life after she got out, and the Wikipedia article on peon slavery has some general information about it in the twentieth century in the American South.
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