2 Case Comparative Essay on Lyching of African Americans
Imagine being a Black Man, a Black Male Child, a Black Woman, a Black Female Child, a White Man, a White Male Child, a White Woman, and a White Female Child - all bearing witness to a lynching. Witnessing a man being killed viciously brings different thoughts and emotions of to whoever sees it. I’m going to express these feelings that I believe went through their minds. Two lynching, “The Mob Lynching a Negro in Clarkson Street, summer 1863” and the “lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, Feb. 1, 1893”. “The Riots in New York: The Mob Lynching a Negro in Clarkson Street”, by the summer of 1863 the Union Army was desperately in need of more soldiers. After the first national Draft Act in March 1863, a draft was held in New York City on July 11, 1863. Another was planned for July 13. A clause in the federal Draft Act allowed men to buy themselves out of the draft for $300, men who could not afford the fee were angry. After the draft on July 13, many people rioted, beating police officers and storming throughout the streets, attacking people and burning buildings. “The targets of the fiercest attacks were African-Americans. Rioters blamed the war on slavery, and so feared competition for jobs from freed slaves if slavery . . .
I don’t think any of these white people even thought twice about killing Smith for the crime. The other lynching on Clarkson street occurred because white Americans were afraid free slaves would take jobs that the wanted. Those worthless Negro I’d prefer my families life over there’s. If I were in 1893 and Smith, a black or white man had done this to my child I would be 1st to roast him, inch by inch. In his greed for revenge, last Thursday, he grabbed up the little girl and committed the crime”. Leave the niggers as slaves; we can still force them into wars. Being put in jail is not enough of a punishment for me. Henry smith was accused of killing a white girl he went on run. A Black Man’s view: this is the freedom that they offered us, they give us freedom to die in their war, but not to have a job to survive with our freedom. The Negro swore vengeance, and several times assaulted Vance. Then, being apparently dead, gasoline was poured all over his body, cotton wool placed beneath him and set on fire. Burn his crotch first; drive hot pokers in his eyes next and roast him. To me being any father and uncle of innocent kids no more than five years old, this crime is unbearable. I wonder what would happen to me when I grow up, would I be attacked just for trying to survive.
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