“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a "bright disposition" might lighten a dark-skinned woman in the search for a domestic servant; a "rough" face might… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential murderer. If… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“Solomon Northup, who had been kidnapped from New York, taken to Virginia, and then sold to Louisiana, told no one his story, for fear… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“But the reformers were right: the bovine digestive system is an extraordinarily efficient mechanism for converting grass, fodder, and even forage into fertilizer.15 Their… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric. William Green's… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee! — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the skin had… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood. — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“Some slaves, however, were "too white to keep." That was how Edmund was described by the man who had sold him from Tennessee. The… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
“South. In southern courtrooms and medical journals, slaves' misbehavior was often attributed to an inward disposition of character, which meant that there was something… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
