AAS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Rebecca Latimer Felton, Omnipotence

• School: U of M
• Department: Afroamerican & African Studies
• Course: AAS 111
• Professor: Sandra Gunning

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Excerpt from 1897 speech to georgia state agricultural society. I simply say the heathens are destroyed in sight of your opulence and magnificence and when your temples of justice are put to shame by the lynchers" rope. If your courthouses are shams and frauds and the law"s delay is the villain"s bulwark, then i say let judgment begin at the house of god and redeem this country from the cloud of shame that rests upon it. The crying need of women on the farms is security in their lives and in their homes. Strong, able-bodied men have told me they stopped farming and moved to town because their women folks were scared to death if left alone. I say it is a disgrace in a free country when such things are a public reproach and the best part of god"s creation are trembling and crying for protection in their own homes.