New on SAPIENS: A researcher delves into her family’s oral history and local archives to tell the story of a relative—falsely accused as a boy of a crime in Jim Crow–era South Carolina.
rewriting the State Constitution by “calmly, deliberately, and avowedly” revising it to disenfranchise Black residents under the law. Tillman also said he would “willingly lead a mob in lynching a Negro [sic] who had committed an assault upon a White woman.”
But shortly after Mr. S. learned that James would be leaving him to work for someone else, the trouble started. A few days later, Mr. S. gathered some White men who lived nearby. They stormed Uncle Ben’s home, grabbed James, and took him into the woods. Still, the mob did not free him. This Black youth, and his community, had to be taught a fundamental lesson in white supremacy: Interracial sex was forbidden. If there was even a suspicion of transgression, it commanded severe punishment—if not at the hands of a lynch mob, then at the hands of the law. And for this legal process to succeed, a confession was necessary.Bernice recounted, “So, they tied James to a tree, hands down so he couldn’t do anything.
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