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Tenn. official 'threatened' blacks with skin 'trophy' he saved from 1896 lynching

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jaunte2/23/2014 9:24:10 am PST
In conclusion, Sewell said that he still owned a “strap” of the black man’s skin that had been given to him by his grandfather.

“They made a strap out of his skin, and they used that strap as a knife sharpener,” Allen remarked.

Mainord pointed out that the skin “was like a trophy to him, and that concerns me.”

In truth, some stories just fly right by the Godwin rule.

“I am the victim because I made a mistake,” Sewell observed.