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louisiana governor john bel edwards, by the way, comes from a long line of sheriffs in tangipahoa parish, which had the highest rate of lynchings of any parish in the southern part of the state. makes you wonder what made his ancestors so “popular”. https://twitter.com/aiukliAfrika/status/1242989197541150720
as of this morning louisiana has the highest per capita rate of positive COVID-19 cases in the entire united states. that's more than new york, texas, florida, etc.
anti-Black lynchings in tangipahoa parish, louisiana during the reconstruction & jim crow periods. TW particularly for the 1st screen which describes one in detail
kinda hard to read buf if i'm doing so correctly millard f. edwards was sheriff from 1897-1900, during at least 1 of the tangipahoa lynchings mentioned above. john bel edwards' brother daniel h. edwards is the current sheriff, & there are two frank m. edwardses in between them.
“Perhaps Gov. Edwards has never ‘studied reparations’ and is not ‘pursuing it’ because of the sheer size of the checks he may have to write to some of his African American neighbors in and around the Amite, Louisiana area…
who are descendants of slaves who helped his family amass its vast wealth.” https://www.soundoffla.com/after-sound-off-louisiana-poses-simple-question-of-gov-edwards-stand-on-reparations-for-slavery-two-national-publications-follow-supplying-evidence-of-his-familys-extensive-past-slave-ownership/
“Records show that spacious family homes, such as Edwards Manor near Wilmer, were built by slaves who used timber they cut and hued from the family’s extensive land holdings.
Conveyance records in the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse show Daniel Edwards, a friend of Andrew Jackson’s and the family patriarch who first held elected office in Louisiana, buying and selling slaves.
…Daniel Edwards & his son [confederate army captain] Nicholas Stone Edwards owned a combined 90 slaves in 1860…The Edwards family was 1 of the largest slave holding families in Louisiana in 1860, & was near the top 1%of slave holding families in the entire country at that time”
http://archive.vn/ceBsK
it's safest to just assume that any ""prominent''" white family in the south was a major slaveholding family tbh. this thread was only illustrative—like the attached one on brian kemp, governor of georgia—of a fact that many others have previously shown:
it's safest to just assume that any ""prominent''" white family in the south was a major slaveholding family tbh. this thread was only illustrative—like the attached one on brian kemp, governor of georgia—of a fact that many others have previously shown:
“Despite significant wealth losses [due to civil war], the families of wealthy southern slaveholders regained their economic status within a generation.”
in other words, whatever defeat southern aristocrats faced was *temporary*. slavers & their collaborators still rule the u.s.
in other words, whatever defeat southern aristocrats faced was *temporary*. slavers & their collaborators still rule the u.s.
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