'Lord God, here comes the devil.' American Slave encounters with the the Ku Klux Klan (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

'Lord God, here comes the devil.' American Slave encounters with the the Ku Klux Klan All the narratives within this publication have been taken from the Federal Writers Project and are now held in the US Library of Congress and are available for further research. In total 2300 former slave narratives where collected for this project during the 1930's. "Dem old Ku Klux was a bad lot of mongrels. Dey catch you out widout a pass dey cut you 100 lashes, and you feel like you ain't able to go nowhere again wid a pass or widout one. After de war was fought, I do know some of dem old slave owners to be nice enough to start der slaves off in freedom wid somethin' to live on till dey get on der feet, but dey wasn't in droves, I tell you dat now, just a mighty precious few. Den der was some others dat kept der slaves in bondage after de war, just like before de war and de slaves, never know till der dying day dat dey was free folks. Far as dat goes, down dere just below Sunflower, Mississippi, and lots of other countryside places in de deep South, dey got slavery right now. De only song I can think of we use to sing so much was: 'O, Lord Remember Me'. I remember de Patter-rollers, de Ku Klux and de Yankees. Niggers dreaded all three. Dere was no jail fer us; de Patter-rollers kept us straight. In the South, white supremacists did not believe blacks should have any rights. During Reconstruction, white supremacists formed political and social groups to promote whites and oppress blacks, and to enact laws that codified inequality. This book contains actual stories of the Klan as told by former slaves.