re: #329 ggt

I think I meant by “only the other slaves knowing” that his wife, children and neighbors wouldn’t find out. He’d get to go about his business in society with his little secret intact.

Or her.

I wouldn’t put it past confed women to act out, especially the types who knew all they have to do is say a Black man looked at them crosseyed and start an ethnic cleansing.

These hypotheticals aside, yeah, the US really waxed itself into a corner, trying to claim people are not actually people, thus whites could do anything they wanted to them. Even state courts and designers of Black Codes knew better.