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Did you know in Florida during slavery slave masters would take a enslaved black child tie a rope around his or her legs put them in the water and use them for ALLIGATOR BAIT. Two movies in 1900 “Alligator Bait” and “Gator and the Pickaninny.” both showed and proved this practice.There were many advertisements and postcards in the South that proved this was real. A PART OF HISTORY NEVER TOLD. NOW YOU KNOW.
holy fuck . :(
I’m so going to lose followers for this but I want academic sources backing this claim up. Media depictions of slaves being used as bait doesn’t prove that any slave children were used as bait… The fact these are from the 20th century should tell you something… this is imagery used to scare people. It is saying “you step out of line and you are alligator bait.”
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