Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon

Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

makeup is an imperious sexual impulse which, aroused at the

slightest incentive, sweeps aside al restraints in the pursuit of

physical gratification."7

The Montgomery Advertiser reported with obvious satisfaction on

a declaration of thanks issued by the "colored people of Richmond"

to a white education conference for al that it had done for African

Americans. While inviting at endees of the meeting to at end First

African Baptist Church while in the city, the declaration assured

whites, "The negroes of Richmond have always been able to live in

peace and harmony with the white race. The same kindly feeling

which coursed in the veins of the ‘mammy’ and body servant of

which coursed in the veins of the ‘mammy’ and body servant of

bygone days exists today"8 White southerners clung to any fragment

of such obeisance as demonstration that their racial conduct was a

corrective measure aimed at bringing African Americans back to

their natural posture toward whites—not an eruption of

supremacist venality.

A young white chambermaid at the English Hotel in Indianapolis,

Indiana, named Louise Hadley became a brief cause célèbre in May

1903, hailed in the North and the South, after she refused to make

up a bed that had been occupied by Booker T Washington. After

being red from her job, Hadley issued a public statement: "For a

white girl to clean up the rooms occupied by a negro … is a

disgrace," she wrote. "I have always felt that the negro was not far

above the brute." Commit ees formed in Georgia, Alabama, and

Texas raised several thousand dol ars in contributions to Hadley.

"We admire this young woman's discrimination and think she took

exactly the right action," beamed the Dadevil e Spot Cash.9

When Boston leaders publicly discussed a proposal to transport

large numbers of southern blacks to New England's declining farm

regions, southerners sput ered with skepticism. "We could wel

spare a few thousand ‘crap shooters’ and banjo pickers from the

South," one Alabama let er writer responded on the pages of the

Advertiser. "The only negroes who wil probably agree to go wil be

those with whom it would be a mercy not only for the whites, but

the negro of the South, to part," said the Chat anooga Times. "Since

the mulat o Crispus At ucks led the phlegmatic Bostonians in their

revolt against the British troops, dark skins have been popular up

there," sneered the Montgomery Advertiser. "Such a movement

might be good for the South. It would probably rid our section of a

good many negroes who are worse than useless here…It would give

those far-sighted philanthropists a chance to learn by actual contact

and experience something of the race problem about which they

prate so much." The Advertiser editorialized on the need for African

Americans to be "fixed" through hard labor.10

In the barely veiled racist invective of the day, the Columbus

In the barely veiled racist invective of the day, the Columbus

(Georgia) Enquirer-Sun said it doubted the movement would

amount to anything until watermelon season was over.11

The popular sentiments used to justify the violence appeared to

correspond with the work of a generation of American physicians

and scientists—in the North and the South—who busily translated

or mistranslated the elementary evolutionary principles outlined by

Darwin into crude explanations for why

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