Ida B Wells The Red Record Analysis

For over two centuries the African-Americans suffered under the ruling of white man, they served as slaves. In Ida B Wells, The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, she recalls lynching statistics of black men and women, and tells the awful happenings of this time. During slavery these individuals where reduced to mere physical attributes since the white man owned their body and soul it made sure, they made sure to reduce them to only financial worth. The methods used to accomplish this were by inhumane treatment, severe punishment (such as whippings), and scourging. The reasoning behind this inhumane physical punishment was to keep slaves subservient and submissive to their white masters. Yet, …show more content…
These white women took on the mission to travel to these communities and become their teachers. Unfortunately these women were not seen as heroes in their communities, they instead became social outlaws and were referred to as “Nigger teachers”, their own families and communities ostracized them, persecuted them and insulted them. Wells refers to this women as chivalrous toward the colored men and women, yet they received no chivalry for the white man whom boasts himself of its chivalry towards women. Still, we notice that no lynching’s or mobs where had for these women and how they were being treated by their own …show more content…
By the use of oppression, wrongful accusations, and murder the white man has risen to grandeur. Those who would want to claim these accounts never occurred as they are told, we can refer to the stories of the Northern missionary women who suffered being outcasts for simply wanting to spread the gospel and to be kind to other humans. Their stories help support the experiences of slavery. Wells statistics show that there is knowledge of ten thousand Negros who were lynched in the 19th century, unfortunately we cannot attest these number are accurate. There murders committed by the white men during these times were not all documented, and many stories have been lost. Wells claims that for every wrong there is a remedy, to bring justice to the murdered blacks. She admits that some of these individuals were not all guilty but not all of them should had ended in capital punishment. She asks that we share these stories of racism that lead to murder, to stand up against injustice and become conscientious of the system in which we live