The Coup on Cape Fear - Part One: The Dark Scheme
Historical Blindness
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What Happened to the Blacks in North Carolina?
The newspapers fanned the flames of this panic, falsely reporting that armies of fugitive slaves were marching into northa lina. In 18 98, when josephus daniels racheted up his white supremacy campaign to lie to the public about black plans for an armed up sing, he was tapping into that same fear. There was not a single instance of a slave killing a white person in north carolina at the time, or for some time afterward. Join me for part two on how this disinformation campaign led to voter intimidation, election fraud, armed insurrection and massacre.
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