Slavery in Alabama and Mississippi
The White man’s tricknology is always being trumpeted to the world (that they are peace lovers), as though they want all people, as they falsely claim, to be free and to live in peace, while they are sitting on and crushing between twenty and thirty million Black people in America, who were their servitude slaves a hundred years ago. Now, for one hundred years, the slavemasters’ children falsely claim that we are free and that they are trying to treat us as free people. It has come to me that in the state of Alabama, in Greene County, Alabama, there are big plantations owned by White people; and their stately white houses sit up on hills and the slaves live in a surrounding of shacks. These Black people work hard for very small pay. It is said by some that the salaries range from twenty-five cents a day to $2.50 a week. Rough clothes to work in are furnished to them. This kind of slave labor goes on through the generations. One generation after another is subjected to this slave...