DigitalDrifter
Diamond Member
Thirteen.Good to see the little thug arrested, she is only 13. Hope they throw the book at her.
When the Abolition Act was passed some slaves were fortunately kept on as paid employees by relatively kind and considerate former masters. Others were able to find sustainable employment as share-croppers or tradesmen and some were able to start businesses. But for a substantial percentage of the slave population Abolition meant abandonment and desolation.
As years passed, the former category of productive former slaves managed to cohabit peacefully within White society and its Jim Crow impositions, successfully raising and educating children. The latter category of abandoned chattel became the seminal source of misfits informally regarded as the Black criminal/welfare class, most of whom are illiterate and live by habits established throughout generations of comparatively primitive living conditions.
Thirteen. What will she be like in another dozen years?
Probably in some women's prison somewhere.