Women, Children, Mules and Other Property is the title of a section of the Oklahoma civil code. It was pointed out in the 1970s as still on the books. The patriarchical oligarchy has pitted the races against each other since the thriving communities of escaped slaves and Irish and English indentured servants over the mountains and into K…
Women, Children, Mules and Other Property is the title of a section of the Oklahoma civil code. It was pointed out in the 1970s as still on the books. The patriarchical oligarchy has pitted the races against each other since the thriving communities of escaped slaves and Irish and English indentured servants over the mountains and into Kentuky were identified as a threat to their power. The priveliges granted to poor white southern people that allowed them to lord it over Black people has kept them voting against their best interests ever since Reconstruction. I believe the Southern Baptist Convention has a powerful hand in keeping this system enforced. They are in the news again today, exposed again, as usual, as the patriarchal misogynists they are.
It actually goes back much further than Reconstruction. The deliberate sowing of animosity between Black and white Americans goes back to Bacon’s Rebellion in 17th century Virginia, when dissatisfied white indentured servants and Black enslaved people rebelled against the royal governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. After Bacon’s Rebellion was suppressed, Virginia enacted its first Black Codes to regulate the conduct of Black enslaved people and to encourage white people to buy into racism.
Yep-and they codified it into law. The major items were stricter punishment for Black people, no interracial marriages, and Black people would be slaves for life while White people would serve their indentured time and then be given severance to start their lives. Racism is deeply embedded in America as you point out so well.
Women, Children, Mules and Other Property is the title of a section of the Oklahoma civil code. It was pointed out in the 1970s as still on the books. The patriarchical oligarchy has pitted the races against each other since the thriving communities of escaped slaves and Irish and English indentured servants over the mountains and into Kentuky were identified as a threat to their power. The priveliges granted to poor white southern people that allowed them to lord it over Black people has kept them voting against their best interests ever since Reconstruction. I believe the Southern Baptist Convention has a powerful hand in keeping this system enforced. They are in the news again today, exposed again, as usual, as the patriarchal misogynists they are.
It actually goes back much further than Reconstruction. The deliberate sowing of animosity between Black and white Americans goes back to Bacon’s Rebellion in 17th century Virginia, when dissatisfied white indentured servants and Black enslaved people rebelled against the royal governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. After Bacon’s Rebellion was suppressed, Virginia enacted its first Black Codes to regulate the conduct of Black enslaved people and to encourage white people to buy into racism.
Yep-and they codified it into law. The major items were stricter punishment for Black people, no interracial marriages, and Black people would be slaves for life while White people would serve their indentured time and then be given severance to start their lives. Racism is deeply embedded in America as you point out so well.
Interesting etiology there.