gang to conduct raids on the Black tenants. Strikes gave white men, even those who never had held people in bondage, a chance to personally experience the power of dominating Black people. In the group of seven Ku Klux who attacked Henry Latham’s family in York, South Carolina, five of the gang were given the chance to hit him six or seven times each.70 In October 1870, men in Limestone Springs, South Carolina, took turns whipping Clem Bowden; he later said of the attack, “my wounds had become such a misery to me” that he lost control of his senses. One of the men even took a piece of Clem’s
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