QUOTE OF THE DAY by Marc Wurgaft

Everywhere the patern was the same: white people enslaved, raped, terrorized, and murdered Black people, mostly for profit and also to enforce a rigid hierarchy in which they maintained both status and power. Black people resisted and rebelled, often violently. White fear of Black rebellions soared after each rumored or attempted revolt, leading to heightened surveillance, brutal patrolling, and new waves of laws or policies that aimed to permanently subdue the enslaved population" from Chapter 4: Fear by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander/The 1619 Project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones