In 418 B.C Herodotus, the Greek philosopher who is known as
the father of history said “a man who does not know anything
about the events that took place before he or she was born will
remain forever a child.”
We must go a step further by saying that “any human being who
refuses to learn from his or her history is condemned to
repeating its mistakes and as such will share the same fate in
the consequences of such mistakes.”
Africa is a continent rich in history. As we enjoy telling stories
of our golden past, it is important that we also give a complete
and undiluted account of our journey through slavery and man’s
inhumanity to man.
Of all the atrocities committed against the enslaved Africans in
the Americas and Europe, the use of babies as alligator bait is
one which leaves anyone with a conscience, with a tear in the
eye. Imagining that the child in question was yours, would send
shivers down your spine.
These things are not easy to say, but we must say them, for
posterity sake. And for the sake of the present and future.
Alligator bait, also called gator bait , was the evil practice of
using infant African children as bait to lure alligators out from
water to land. This practice was popular in Louisiana and
Florida, and other parts of the South in America.
During that era, there was a high demand for alligator skin,
which was used in the production of leather shoes, jackets,
belts, and other leather materials. Alligator skin was very
profitable in the 1800s-1900s. But the hunters often had
accidents and lost their arms or lives as they rustled the
swampy waters in their attempt to attract the alligators to the
surface at night.
So, their other viable option was to steal slave babies and use
them as bait. They didn’t find any rodents, or chickens, or
rabbits, or little goats. Those were too valuable. It had to be a
baby that a woman carried for 9 months under intense pain,
brutality, and hard work.
This account has been denied by many in their attempt to cover
up this atrocity. But there are oral accounts, documentaries, and
publications to substantiate our right to closure, empathy and
healing.
In 1923 a publication on ‘Time Magazine ‘reported that “From
Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used
for alligator bait. The infants were left to play in shallow water while
expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian
approach his prey, he is shot by the riflemen. The Chipley Chamber
of Commerce said the story was “a silly lie, false and absurd.”
Maybe so, but it was widely reported in the American press, so it
was at least believable among white Americans of the time.”
To give further evidence of this vile practice, photos and
postcards found in the Jim Crow museum shed clear light on
this. A man in Florida had a picture framed and put on his wall
showing nine naked little African boys with the words “Alligator
Bait” written below.
To further buttress this account, on June 3, 1908, the
‘Washington Times’ reported that a zookeeper at the New York
Zoological Gardens baited “Alligators with pickaninnies” out of
their winter quarters. He sent two African slave children into an
enclosure that was housing alligators and crocodiles numbering
more than 25.
The reptiles had to be led out of their winter tanks into summer
tanks so they could be seen by people. They didn’t find
any other way to do this, other than placing these children in the
tank to lure the alligators and crocodiles out. How artistic!!!
The article read that: Two small colored children happened to drift
through the reptile house among the throng of visitors” and they
were “pressed into service. The alligators “wobbled out as quick as
they could after the ebony mites, who darted around the tank just as
the pursuing monsters fell with grunts of chagrin into the water.
The alligators were “coaxed” into their summer quarters by “plump
little Africans.
There were sources who claimed that the mothers were paid $2
(Two Dollars) for their babies to be used as bait. They also
claimed that the babies were not hurt. But those were just false
accounts, to hide the heinous crimes. Which sane mother would
allow her infant to be tied with a rope around the neck and kept
by the river or lake banks as bait? No mother would do that. And
at the time, African slaves could not read or write, so how did
they read the adverts and apply, as some sources have claimed?
Such lies could be found in the September 21, 1923, headline of
the ‘Oakland Tribune which read: “PICKANINNY BAIT LURES
VORACIOUS ‘GATOR TO DEATH. And Mother Gets Her Baby Back in
Perfect Condition; Also $2”.
It is indeed very callous for a person to risk a baby’s life in such
manner, and then go ahead to justify it with charming words. In
an article by T.W Villiers Chronicles the gator bait process was
described thus: “these little black morsels are more than glad to
be led to the ‘sacrifice’ and do their part in lurking the big Florida
gators to their fate without suffering so much as a scratch.”
But on the contrary, oral accounts of this practice report that
most times, the babies are eaten by the alligator, before the
hunters shoot at it. The hunters would sometimes aim to kill the
alligator only after the baby was in its jaws. Evidence of this is
found in the postcards, pictures, and trinkets they made at the
time to commemorate the practice.
There are other articles that claim that the African slave infants
were not only regularly used as alligator bait but violently
skinned alive in preparation for this . We believe the smell of the
blood and wounded flesh was meant to attract the alligators.
There was an account by the grandson of a man who used to
engage in this business of gator baiting, and this is what he had
to say: “The slaves who had babies, they would steal the babies
during the course of the day, sometimes when their mothers weren’t
watching… Some would be infants; some would be a year old; he
said some would be toddlers. He said they would grab these
children and take them down to the swamp and leave them in pens
like little chicken coops.
They would go down there at night, take these babies and… tie
them up, put a rope around their neck and around their torso, around
here, and tie it tight.
They’d be screaming… What they were doing would help them to
chum the water. He said when they would throw the babies in tied
to this rope, he said in a matter of minutes, he said, the alligators
were on them. He said the alligator would clamp his jaws on that
child. As a matter of fact, once he clamped on them, he was really
swallowed. He said you couldn’t see anything but the rope! Some
would be infants, some would be a year old, toddlers, some would
be infants.”
Some of these evil and unimaginable practices by slave owners
in America could also be found in the Jim Crow Museum of
Racist Memorabilia in Michigan, USA
“Shelved in the museum alongside the many stereotypical
representations of “pickaninnies” (a racial slur applied to
African-American youngsters) speaking fractured English, eating
watermelon, catching opossums, etc., are similar cartoonish
portrayals of black children (and sometimes black adults) as
worthless “alligator bait,” according to accounts.
The practice of using African slave children as “alligator bait”
could also be found in movies and popular music and the lullaby
“Mammy’s Little Alligator Bait,” composed by Henry Wise and
Sidney Perrin in the year 1899.
There is a deliberate attempt by those who carried out slavery
to hide these parts of slave history. Not much is done by them
to apologize and make reparations for these hideous crimes
against humanity. Trying to deny this actually adds more grief to
the descendants of the African slaves, being that their children
are still killed in America today.
The world asks Africans in Diaspora to forget these things. They
say “those who committed these crimes and their victims are long
dead, so let the history die with them.” But they soon forget that
the Jews still remember and talk about the Holocaust every
year. Japan still remembers and commemorates the nuclear
bombing a Hiroshima. So why should the African diaspora shut
up about the crimes against them?
Studies have shown that the legacy of the events of slavery, still
affects the African American’s mental health. This is because
trauma can be transferred from mother to child, and no one
knows how many generations that psychological trauma can
travel.
These accounts of painful history are meant to provide
knowledge and also help the African Diaspora community in the
tackling of these traumas.




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Sanusiaderoju12:
In 418 B.C Herodotus, the Greek philosopher who is known as
the father of history said “a man who does not know anything
about the events that took place before he or she was born will
remain forever a child.”
We must go a step further by saying that “any human being who
refuses to learn from his or her history is condemned to
repeating its mistakes and as such will share the same fate in
the consequences of such mistakes.”
Africa is a continent rich in history. As we enjoy telling stories
of our golden past, it is important that we also give a complete
and undiluted account of our journey through slavery and man’s
inhumanity to man.
Of all the atrocities committed against the enslaved Africans in
the Americas and Europe, the use of babies as alligator bait is
one which leaves anyone with a conscience, with a tear in the
eye. Imagining that the child in question was yours, would send
shivers down your spine.
These things are not easy to say, but we must say them, for
posterity sake. And for the sake of the present and future.
Alligator bait, also called gator bait , was the evil practice of
using infant African children as bait to lure alligators out from
water to land. This practice was popular in Louisiana and
Florida, and other parts of the South in America.
During that era, there was a high demand for alligator skin,
which was used in the production of leather shoes, jackets,
belts, and other leather materials. Alligator skin was very
profitable in the 1800s-1900s. But the hunters often had
accidents and lost their arms or lives as they rustled the
swampy waters in their attempt to attract the alligators to the
surface at night.
So, their other viable option was to steal slave babies and use
them as bait. They didn’t find any rodents, or chickens, or
rabbits, or little goats. Those were too valuable. It had to be a
baby that a woman carried for 9 months under intense pain,
brutality, and hard work.
This account has been denied by many in their attempt to cover
up this atrocity. But there are oral accounts, documentaries, and
publications to substantiate our right to closure, empathy and
healing.
In 1923 a publication on ‘Time Magazine ‘reported that “From
Chipley, Fla., it was reported that colored babies were being used
for alligator bait. The infants were left to play in shallow water while
expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby. When a saurian
approach his prey, he is shot by the riflemen. The Chipley Chamber
of Commerce said the story was “a silly lie, false and absurd.”
Maybe so, but it was widely reported in the American press, so it
was at least believable among white Americans of the time.”
To give further evidence of this vile practice, photos and
postcards found in the Jim Crow museum shed clear light on
this. A man in Florida had a picture framed and put on his wall
showing nine naked little African boys with the words “Alligator
Bait” written below.
To further buttress this account, on June 3, 1908, the
‘Washington Times’ reported that a zookeeper at the New York
Zoological Gardens baited “Alligators with pickaninnies” out of
their winter quarters. He sent two African slave children into an
enclosure that was housing alligators and crocodiles numbering
more than 25.
The reptiles had to be led out of their winter tanks into summer
tanks so they could be seen by people. They didn’t find
any other way to do this, other than placing these children in the
tank to lure the alligators and crocodiles out. How artistic!!!
The article read that: Two small colored children happened to drift
through the reptile house among the throng of visitors” and they
were “pressed into service. The alligators “wobbled out as quick as
they could after the ebony mites, who darted around the tank just as
the pursuing monsters fell with grunts of chagrin into the water.
The alligators were “coaxed” into their summer quarters by “plump
little Africans.
There were sources who claimed that the mothers were paid $2
(Two Dollars) for their babies to be used as bait. They also
claimed that the babies were not hurt. But those were just false
accounts, to hide the heinous crimes. Which sane mother would
allow her infant to be tied with a rope around the neck and kept
by the river or lake banks as bait? No mother would do that. And
at the time, African slaves could not read or write, so how did
they read the adverts and apply, as some sources have claimed?
Such lies could be found in the September 21, 1923, headline of
the ‘Oakland Tribune which read: “PICKANINNY BAIT LURES
VORACIOUS ‘GATOR TO DEATH. And Mother Gets Her Baby Back in
Perfect Condition; Also $2”.
It is indeed very callous for a person to risk a baby’s life in such
manner, and then go ahead to justify it with charming words. In
an article by T.W Villiers Chronicles the gator bait process was
described thus: “these little black morsels are more than glad to
be led to the ‘sacrifice’ and do their part in lurking the big Florida
gators to their fate without suffering so much as a scratch.”
But on the contrary, oral accounts of this practice report that
most times, the babies are eaten by the alligator, before the
hunters shoot at it. The hunters would sometimes aim to kill the
alligator only after the baby was in its jaws. Evidence of this is
found in the postcards, pictures, and trinkets they made at the
time to commemorate the practice.
There are other articles that claim that the African slave infants
were not only regularly used as alligator bait but violently
skinned alive in preparation for this . We believe the smell of the
blood and wounded flesh was meant to attract the alligators.
There was an account by the grandson of a man who used to
engage in this business of gator baiting, and this is what he had
to say: “The slaves who had babies, they would steal the babies
during the course of the day, sometimes when their mothers weren’t
watching… Some would be infants; some would be a year old; he
said some would be toddlers. He said they would grab these
children and take them down to the swamp and leave them in pens
like little chicken coops.
They would go down there at night, take these babies and… tie
them up, put a rope around their neck and around their torso, around
here, and tie it tight.
They’d be screaming… What they were doing would help them to
chum the water. He said when they would throw the babies in tied
to this rope, he said in a matter of minutes, he said, the alligators
were on them. He said the alligator would clamp his jaws on that
child. As a matter of fact, once he clamped on them, he was really
swallowed. He said you couldn’t see anything but the rope! Some
would be infants, some would be a year old, toddlers, some would
be infants.”
Some of these evil and unimaginable practices by slave owners
in America could also be found in the Jim Crow Museum of
Racist Memorabilia in Michigan, USA
“Shelved in the museum alongside the many stereotypical
representations of “pickaninnies” (a racial slur applied to
African-American youngsters) speaking fractured English, eating
watermelon, catching opossums, etc., are similar cartoonish
portrayals of black children (and sometimes black adults) as
worthless “alligator bait,” according to accounts.
The practice of using African slave children as “alligator bait”
could also be found in movies and popular music and the lullaby
“Mammy’s Little Alligator Bait,” composed by Henry Wise and
Sidney Perrin in the year 1899.
There is a deliberate attempt by those who carried out slavery
to hide these parts of slave history. Not much is done by them
to apologize and make reparations for these hideous crimes
against humanity. Trying to deny this actually adds more grief to
the descendants of the African slaves, being that their children
are still killed in America today.
The world asks Africans in Diaspora to forget these things. They
say “those who committed these crimes and their victims are long
dead, so let the history die with them.” But they soon forget that
the Jews still remember and talk about the Holocaust every
year. Japan still remembers and commemorates the nuclear
bombing a Hiroshima. So why should the African diaspora shut
up about the crimes against them?
Studies have shown that the legacy of the events of slavery, still
affects the African American’s mental health. This is because
trauma can be transferred from mother to child, and no one
knows how many generations that psychological trauma can
travel.
These accounts of painful history are meant to provide
knowledge and also help the African Diaspora community in the
tackling of these traumas.




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What do you want us to do with this thread may us feel ashamed for selling our people or carry arms to fight the whitemen, so they will kneel on our kneck again abi


If dem use our children do alligator if thier children come we go kidnap them back use dem do pepper soup for akwaibom, ooh i forgot we use them to do peppersoup dem cum see us as barbarian say we dey chop whitemaen as bushmeat for inside bush

If you see whiteman o.p, kidnap dem make we carry throw for lagoon, because i nor know wetin u want make we use this thread do, if na revenge u dey find that one my hand nor dey because na we black sell black give whiteman....


Op talk true if you see America passport now u nor go go

Op you sure say you even read d article self because you nor even fit edit na copy and throwway you do for this thread