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In the discussion thread: The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all]

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Wed Jan 16, 2013, 11:59 AM

1StrongBlackMan (5,413 posts)

31. My family oral history has it ...

that my Grand-mother attempt to visit her sister in Louisianna (circa 1945). She, and another male relative, were met at the plantation gate by several plantation workers and told, "Get away from here as fast as you can ... if you set foot inside this gate, you will never be allowed to leave."

Apparently, the local "tradition" was that any Black person that enter the grounds, with or without invitation, would be arrested, tried and convicted of trespassing (often, without the benefit of a judge or a jury) and sentenced to forced labor at the site of the "infraction."

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72 replies	Author	Time	Post
The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all]	xchrom	Jan 2013	OP
Slavery never ended	loyalsister	Jan 2013	#1
No, travel down to the Delta and observe the living conditions and "indentured" blacks	Tutonic	Jan 2013	#63
I fully agree	loyalsister	Jan 2013	#66
My father's family were sharecroppers near Meridian, Mississippi	revolution breeze	Jan 2013	#72
Awful	dipsydoodle	Jan 2013	#2
kr	HiPointDem	Jan 2013	#3
Chain gangs are not hidden. Just ignored.	Scootaloo	Jan 2013	#4
Some days I'm ashamed to be an American ...	Scuba	Jan 2013	#5
Our American Holocaust	MrScorpio	Jan 2013	#6
The mass graves are out there, they just need to be found.	Scuba	Jan 2013	#8
Are you referring to burial grounds?	Nye Bevan	Jan 2013	#18
Why would it matter?	Scuba	Jan 2013	#20
Thank you. n/t	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2013	#32
It doesn't matter. They were robbed of their place in the sun, that they should have had.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#39
Worked to death or executed....what's the difference?...	OldDem2012	Jan 2013	#23
+1 you speak truth. n/t	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#47
the noose took the place of gas chambers	SemperEadem	Jan 2013	#12
Our 2nd holocaust.	grahamhgreen	Jan 2013	#54
"we want our country back..."	SemperEadem	Jan 2013	#11
Yeah, they want to live off what they stole from others - their freedom, their labor, their lives.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#40
So so true	Euphoria	Jan 2013	#57
Still happening... disproportionate sentencing for black folks and prison labor...	Luminous Animal	Jan 2013	#53
This is why I have no desire to live in the South.	UnrepentantLiberal	Jan 2013	#7
I live in TN and you are spot on.	reflection	Jan 2013	#15
"Oh, but the South is so put-upon and misunderstood!" in 3...2...1...	Aristus	Jan 2013	#24
It hurts to hear people bash the South	reflection	Jan 2013	#29
I agree. I grew up with a number of things about the South that I loved.	Aristus	Jan 2013	#30
The south is different as any internal colony is different. Other internal colonies include:	HiPointDem	Jan 2013	#61
Me, too, reflection. I had to move back to care for aging parents.	Politicub	Jan 2013	#51
Thank you. Kick. Rec. n/t	Judi Lynn	Jan 2013	#9
that is the country that the tea farts want to be taken back to	SemperEadem	Jan 2013	#10
+1000	Blue_Tires	Jan 2013	#34
Right to Work.	tclambert	Jan 2013	#13
What Martin Luther King, Jr. knew:	freshwest	Jan 2013	#62
K&R	idwiyo	Jan 2013	#14
Thank you so much for posting.	nc4bo	Jan 2013	#16
But, but, states rights!	ellie	Jan 2013	#17
That is EXACTLY what people mean by "states rights"	Hugabear	Jan 2013	#28
Unless one is talking about Marijuana or DOMA	hughee99	Jan 2013	#38
SMH	Mr Dixon	Jan 2013	#19
Slavery Just went corporate with Share-Cropping	JCMach1	Jan 2013	#21
K&R	Solly Mack	Jan 2013	#22
If only the 14 year old black kid had been smoking a joint...many here would applaud his	Romulox	Jan 2013	#25
if the kid was 17 and black and had Skittles, some here would defend his killing	CreekDog	Jan 2013	#27
you are right about that. racism runs deep	noiretextatique	Jan 2013	#45
I must have missed those posts....	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#48
I agree, Romulox, combine the "War on Drugs" and for profit prisons and we	Uncle Joe	Jan 2013	#43
I lived in the South in the 50's and 60's and nothing would surprise surprise me about what happened	demosincebirth	Jan 2013	#26
My family oral history has it ...	1StrongBlackMan	Jan 2013	#31
god....	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#49
This is sickening...knr	joeybee12	Jan 2013	#33
k&r	shanti	Jan 2013	#35
Rogue government? It can't happen here.	Nuclear Unicorn	Jan 2013	#36
K&R	gollygee	Jan 2013	#37
omg	uponit7771	Jan 2013	#41
Some years back a DUer recommended Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name	malaise	Jan 2013	#42
Thanks for posting that.	LisaLynne	Jan 2013	#50
Yes, I remember hearing an interview with him when his book came out.	Hissyspit	Jan 2013	#58
It is an excellent book	malaise	Jan 2013	#68
k&r. Thanks for posting this story. I had no idea...	Liberal_in_LA	Jan 2013	#44
They left out The Nadir when we were taught American history. NT.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#46
rec'd	limpyhobbler	Jan 2013	#52
I saw a documentary that dealt with this on PBS.	Third Doctor	Jan 2013	#55
See post #42.	Hissyspit	Jan 2013	#59
I have read many heartbreaking stories on DU . . .	Brigid	Jan 2013	#56
I always thought this was Jim Crow	caseymoz	Jan 2013	#60
I recently posted some photos..	SouthernDonkey	Jan 2013	#64
K&R	Land Shark	Jan 2013	#65
Grew up in a very liberal state...	im1013	Jan 2013	#67
I remember seeing a TV show decades ago, I think in the 1960s.	drm604	Jan 2013	#69
Yes -- and for a good article about this subject	TuxedoKat	Jan 2013	#71
k/r	marmar	Jan 2013	#70

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