To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in white sheets and crept around at night, posing as spirits coming to infect black people with disease or steal them for research. Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan.
INSANEEE!! I had no clue and I’m glad is book as taught me so many things like a new fact ever chapter. I can fell my frontal lobe developing😛
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