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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Horror
- Subject: History / Historical
- Published: 09/26/2023
Modern Slavery
Born 1955, F, from Lovelock, Nevada, United States.png)
Disclaimer: portions of this story were. Research. The names of the MISSISSIPPI OFFICIALS. Had I lived there then I would have been one of the peons exploited.i have some colored blood in my lineages. I have my first American ancestors.
1927 The Great Mississippi Flood
Peonage is the use of laborers without adequate financial or material compensation.
Peonage is a system of convict labor by which convicts are leased to contractors
It is the condition of being a peon
"Back Water Blues"
by Bessie Smith
Ain’t Got No Place to Go
Ain’t Got No Place to Go
When it thunders and lightning’
And the wind begins to blow
There’s thousands of people
Ain’t got no place to go"
Bessie Smith
Back Water Blues
Gather around çlosely and listen quietly. This is a tragic story from an earlier time in the State of Mississippi. The flood of 1927 was a natural disaster. The rain fell and it continued to fall. The thunder was introduced with the fury of cannon fire.the lightning bolts lit up the skies reaching down to assault the slippery mud beneath our feet.the waters rose until their banks could not hold them. This was the will of God.When the rains or floods come so many people " ain't got no place to go.you wade muddy water and pray.
The flood also exposed the wide triangular slice of land known as the Mississippi Delta. The land where it is and how it is shaped is the will of God for whatever reason fate or fortune possessed the generations before you to locate here. So here you are.
The mighty Mississippi River and the flooding exposed the ugly side of the people. The " Masters" called their attitude Black peonage; it was and is the “new” slavery " peonage" the slur controlled the lives of men, women,and children. These children of God were and are still called " freed slaves"and their descendants are still in bondage
The flood showed that the shadow of the plantation still looms large over the landscape of Mississippi and the people of color. Sadly little has changed in Mississippi Especially in the Delta. Most blacks in the region still reside on plantation soil as sharecroppers and tenant farmers this is true for the first Americans and the African Americans. many others were forced into coerced labor.the slur " this is equally true today.
The degrading slurs Boy,Gal, and the other words are common, a part of everyday speech.in Mississippi today some white farmers and ranchers subtract the cost of a black laborer's tools from the pay he was promised.The whites expect the colored workers to be dishonest.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free." He meant well. But, in Mississippi, these were so many pretty sounding words.said by an outsider.
One hundred sixty_ years after passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. People of color remain in slavery. This is the law and will of man. It was wrong in1863 and it remains wrong today. The people of color are not slaves. It is past time for the Civil. war rebellion to end.
In the aftermath of the flood, local law-enforcement authorities arrested thousands of black men on vagrancy and similar charges. The Africans were caged in “pens,” and released to white planters in need of rebuilding their businesses.
The US Justice Department failed to pursue statutory violations of the Anti-Peonage Act of 1867.
In Mississippi there is County law and state law.the local county law is The most authorities.
Federal law is seen as outside interference. This is said to bring up the point.the US Justice Department's involvement in pursuing the Anti -Peonage Act was sporadic or not at all.
The Justice Department’s seeming indifference mirrored that of other federal agencies to blacks, who suffered disproportionately because of the flood. The executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) returned to Association headquarters in New York City, New York from the Mississippi Delta and wrote a scorching review of the failure of federal Jim Crow relief efforts in the flood areas. His report exposed the use of federal troops to hold black “peons” in “concentration camps” until their planter employers could claim them.
1927 The Great Mississippi Flood
Peonage is the use of laborers without adequate financial or material compensation.
Peonage is a system of convict labor by which convicts are leased to contractors
It is the condition of being a peon
"Back Water Blues"
by Bessie Smith
Ain’t Got No Place to Go
Ain’t Got No Place to Go
When it thunders and lightning’
And the wind begins to blow
There’s thousands of people
Ain’t got no place to go"
Bessie Smith
Back Water Blues
Gather around çlosely and listen quietly. This is a tragic story from an earlier time in the State of Mississippi. The flood of 1927 was a natural disaster. The rain fell and it continued to fall. The thunder was introduced with the fury of cannon fire.the lightning bolts lit up the skies reaching down to assault the slippery mud beneath our feet.the waters rose until their banks could not hold them. This was the will of God.When the rains or floods come so many people " ain't got no place to go.you wade muddy water and pray.
The flood also exposed the wide triangular slice of land known as the Mississippi Delta. The land where it is and how it is shaped is the will of God for whatever reason fate or fortune possessed the generations before you to locate here. So here you are.
The mighty Mississippi River and the flooding exposed the ugly side of the people. The " Masters" called their attitude Black peonage; it was and is the “new” slavery " peonage" the slur controlled the lives of men, women,and children. These children of God were and are still called " freed slaves"and their descendants are still in bondage
The flood showed that the shadow of the plantation still looms large over the landscape of Mississippi and the people of color. Sadly little has changed in Mississippi Especially in the Delta. Most blacks in the region still reside on plantation soil as sharecroppers and tenant farmers this is true for the first Americans and the African Americans. many others were forced into coerced labor.the slur " this is equally true today.
The degrading slurs Boy,Gal, and the other words are common, a part of everyday speech.in Mississippi today some white farmers and ranchers subtract the cost of a black laborer's tools from the pay he was promised.The whites expect the colored workers to be dishonest.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be free." He meant well. But, in Mississippi, these were so many pretty sounding words.said by an outsider.
One hundred sixty_ years after passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. People of color remain in slavery. This is the law and will of man. It was wrong in1863 and it remains wrong today. The people of color are not slaves. It is past time for the Civil. war rebellion to end.
In the aftermath of the flood, local law-enforcement authorities arrested thousands of black men on vagrancy and similar charges. The Africans were caged in “pens,” and released to white planters in need of rebuilding their businesses.
The US Justice Department failed to pursue statutory violations of the Anti-Peonage Act of 1867.
In Mississippi there is County law and state law.the local county law is The most authorities.
Federal law is seen as outside interference. This is said to bring up the point.the US Justice Department's involvement in pursuing the Anti -Peonage Act was sporadic or not at all.
The Justice Department’s seeming indifference mirrored that of other federal agencies to blacks, who suffered disproportionately because of the flood. The executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) returned to Association headquarters in New York City, New York from the Mississippi Delta and wrote a scorching review of the failure of federal Jim Crow relief efforts in the flood areas. His report exposed the use of federal troops to hold black “peons” in “concentration camps” until their planter employers could claim them.
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