Black Arson in Albany, New York

Don, R Gerlach

doi:10.1177/002193477700700304

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“…Three slaves were involved in setting the fires, including two female slave teenagers: 12-year-old Bett and 14-year-old Dean. Both hanged, and their accomplice, a male slave named Pompey, hanged a month later (Gerlach, 1977). Pennsylvania hanged Sucky for arson in July 1780, and Virginia hanged Malina in 1861, along with her confederate Andrew, for burning their master's barn, stable, corn house, and tobacco house (Morris, 1996, p. 334).…”

Section: Slave Women Executions In Colonial and Antebellum Slaverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Black Female Executions in Historical Context

Baker

2008

Criminal Justice Review

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This article examines the systemic oppression of executed Black women from the earliest periods of American history. The most consistent factor in Black female executions throughout U.S. history is criminal justice authorities' executions of Black women largely for challenging gendered and racist exploitation. Colonial and antebellum slavery institutionalized the persecution of slave women, who often retaliated against oppressive brutality by killing White masters. White lynch mobs effectively augmented the legal killing of Black women in postbellum society and lowered Black female execution rates. Reduced to a peonage state in the apartheid of Jim Crow, Black women's crimes of resistance against White brutality paralleled those of slave women decades earlier. And despite the delusional expansion of civil rights and the sovereignty of Black people over the confines of segregation in the modern era, the racialized sexism of American criminal justice has rendered Black women ever more vulnerable to the death penalty.

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Section: Slave Women Executions In Colonial and Antebellum Slaverymentioning

confidence: 99%