The Coup on Cape Fear - Part One: The Dark Scheme
Historical Blindness
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The Black Man as a Beastly Rapist
After the election, simons and daniels found they needed to stir up more than just resentment over black residents voting and holding positions of authority. They needed to spread fear throughout cape. Following daniel's lead, white supremisis newspapers fell back on the age old spectre of the black man as a beastly rapist. It succeeded in winning white populists and even some republicans to their cause because of deeply ingrained racial tensions.
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