From “Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America” by Joel Edward Goza
In slave times, the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
-Ida B. Wells, “A Red Record,” 1895