How Slaveholders Used a Plantation Class System to Maintain Control

By Christer Petley, Aeon It is no surprise that the whip is synonymous with New World slavery: its continual crack remained an audible threat to enslaved workers to keep at their work, reminding them that their lives and bodies were not their own, and that they should...
The Methodist Preacher Who Used Christianity to Revive the Klan

The Methodist Preacher Who Used Christianity to Revive the Klan

Restricting membership to white Christians, the Klan wore white robes to symbolize “purity,” burned crosses to signify “the Light of Christ” and picked selective scriptures from the Bible to preach white supremacy. The post The Methodist...