#LutherHolbert and his wife were tortured and burned alive by a mob of more than 1,000 people. While spectators enjoyed deviled eggs, lemonade, and whiskey, members of the mob cut off the victims' fingers and ears and handed them out as souvenirs.
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7/10
#LutherHolbert and his wife, were worn out from traveling over 100 miles on foot through canebrakes and swamps, they were found asleep and captured. They were taken back and burned at the stake by a large mob in the shadow of a black church.”
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6/10
When the posse came looking for #LutherHolbert and his wife, they shot at every Black American in sight, and an unknown Black person was killed. But by that time, they had fled. “The chase, which started on Wed morning, continued until late into the night...
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5/10
Some newspapers claimed #LutherHolbert argued w/ Eastland when the white man ordered him to leave the plantation, while others stated James Eastland had attacked Holbert for encouraging other indebted Black workers to flee the slavery-like conditions of bonded labor.
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2/10
#LutherHolbert and his wife were tortured and burned alive by a mob of more than 1,000 people. While spectators enjoyed deviled eggs, lemonade, and whiskey, members of the mob cut off the victims' fingers and ears and handed them out as souvenirs.
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
#Lynching
7/10
#LutherHolbert and his wife, were worn out from traveling over 100 miles on foot through canebrakes and swamps, they were found asleep and captured. They were taken back and burned at the stake by a large mob in the shadow of a black church.”
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
#Lynching
6/10
When the posse came looking for #LutherHolbert and his wife, they shot at every Black American in sight, and an unknown Black person was killed. But by that time, they had fled. “The chase, which started on Wed morning, continued until late into the night...
#AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
5/10
Some newspapers claimed #LutherHolbert argued w/ Eastland when the white man ordered him to leave the plantation, while others stated James Eastland had attacked Holbert for encouraging other indebted Black workers to flee the slavery-like conditions of bonded labor.
#AmericanHistory
#Lynching
2/10
#OTD #February7 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism 1st gas streetlight #Baltimore 1817, #NASA #BruceMcCandless untethered 1984, Sugar refinery explosion kills 14 #Savannah 2008, #BLM #LutherHolbert lynched 1904, 1st Negro History week #CarterGWoodston 1926, woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/02/07/f...
