BLOG 3 Cry of rape is made..."Find a black man for me!"

In the book southern Horrors by Ida B. Wells as well as edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster, many stories of slave life are shared. In 1892 a survey was released. This survey showed the amount of people lynched throughout the past three years. As of a result 728 African Americans were lynched for various reasons. Within an eight year period 728 people were killed used the same technique...these African Americans not only shared a similar lifestyle as a slave they shared the same death. Will Lewis a young boy was a young boy who was accused of being drunk in about 1891. A couple of white folks accused him of being drunk and "sassy" to them. Was he really drunk? Alcohol may just have had the best of him, when supposedly acting "sassy". "A white woman's word was taken as absolutely in this case when the cry of  rape is made, and he was freed" (Royster 60). This quote clearly applies to Will Lewis' case, the government took the white mans word for the African American being drunk and "sassy" in other words they believed he was acting recklessly towards the white folks. Now keep in mind that slavery was just abolished and society was in radical reconstruction. Many whites were unhappy with the newly found freedom of African Americans, therefore they took matters into their own hands. Moreover forming their own government or law, in other words they though this was a justification for their violent acts against African Americans such as lynching. It was clear that every white had the intention of having every African American hung, in other words lynched. It is safe to say that many stories on the white individuals behalf have been falsely told. At the time a white man was considered more important as to any African American.