![]() Before slaves were freed they were property, and no slaveholder killed a slave except in the rarest of circumstances due to their high value, but after that defining conflict, lynching became almost as common as lashings.īy tracing Southern whites’ attitudes towards blacks up through Jim Crow, sharecropping and legal segregation, Anderson traces the hatred that played out against us in the form of rage … rage over losing the war and their “property.” Professor Anderson lays out - in a relatively slim volume - in exacting and excruciating detail the extreme violence that has been perpetrated against African-Americans since our arrival to these shores, but particularly after what can best be described as “so-called” emancipation. She makes a strong case that, indeed, since the Civil War, most of the ills of the nation that have led to black unrest can be laid at the feet of whites. For decades now, whenever we have civil unrest in the country the disturbances are usually laid at the feet of “black rage.” But while rage by blacks against oppression and brutality is most often cited as the culprit, Emory University Professor Carol Anderson, in her most recent book, White Rage, posits that the real root causes for such disturbances is instead white rage. ![]()
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