Couldn’t nobody own Forest Joe. Very little is known about Forest before he escaped from the Carroll plantation in South Carolina’s Richland District, but by the spring of 1821, “the celebrated Bandit Joe” was becoming notorious for his brazen, charismatic leadership and his ability to vanish into thin air.16 Chronically ill with stage 5 drapetomania, he was unapologetic about infecting enslaved people with his affliction. If Angela Davis had a baby with T’Challa and gave it up for adoption to be raised by Tupac, that baby would one day read about the first man to truly live the thug life and
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