Kamala Harris’ Family Exposed as Violent Plantation Slave Owners

I do not care for this woman and her causes, but what did she have to do with that? My own Mississippi ancestors could be suspected of cruelty and robbery of African-Americans. They never spoke of such but were without a doubt the sort of people who would commit those actions. TD

Neon Nettle

"Democratic 2020 hopeful's father reveals ancestors owned Jamaican sugar plantation slaves."

. . . "But later that day, after he witnessed slaves being punished by Brown's overseer, Whiteley wrote:

 "The first was a man of about thirty-five years of age. "He was what is called a pen-keeper or cattle herd; and his offence was having suffered a mule to go astray. "At the command of the overseer he proceeded to strip off part of his clothes, and laid himself flat on his belly, his back and buttocks being uncovered. "One of the drivers then commenced flogging him with the cart whip. "This whip is about ten feet long, with a short stout handle, and is an instrument of terrible power. It is whirled by the operator round his head, and then brought down with a rapid motion of the arm upon the recumbent victim, causing the blood to spring at every stroke. "When I saw this spectacle now for the first time exhibited before my own eyes, with all its revolting accompaniments, and saw the degraded and mangled victim writhing and groaning under the infliction, I felt horror-struck. "I trembled and turned sick; but being determined to see the whole to an end, I kept my station at the window. "The sufferer, writhing like a wounded worm, every time the lash cut across his body, cried out, 'Lord! Lord! Lord!'  . . .