“South. In southern courtrooms and medical journals, slaves' misbehavior was often attributed to an inward disposition of character, which meant that there was something invariably, inevitably, perhaps biologically "bad" about the slave. Jim, for instance, was said to have "the… — 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
