Research Reveals That Black Children Were Fed to Hogs and Used as Alligator Bait in the Early 1900s
Research Reveals That Black Children Were Fed to Hogs and Used as Alligator Bait in the Early 1900s Mississippi Delta. One of the Wares was a doctor and was responsible for disposing of the boys in the Delta. The Wares were arrested and tried for kidnapping and hiding a boy at the home of Turner in Simpson County until they could transport him to the Delta. A report was filed with the Attorney General in 1900. Another report filed in Montgomery, Alabama, started a young black boy named Young Trammell was taken from the Alabama line and carried into Georgia where he was forced to work off a debt. The boy’s father informed the reporter that he could not get his son back until he paid the amount that Benford claimed was owed plus the alleged costs of the court proceedings. Many have never heard these stories because they are not taught in schools. Montreal Harrell, educator and Grambling State University alumna, knows the reality of this truth. “A limited amount of information is pr...