The Period When Black Babies Are Thrown to Alligators as Bait

If we ask what is perhaps one of the worst things in the world, many would say racism. Really Racism is unacceptable behavior. However, this view was not always so. If we go back only 100 years, we would see that racism is a perfectly normal thing. What we are going to tell you today is perhaps an example of one of the highest levels of racism.

Although the USA seems to be one of the countries that are now the symbol of freedom, especially until the 1900s. against black people There was a lot of racism. There are references to the use of black babies as alligator bait in Florida during slavery.

Babies of black slaves were taken and used as bait to hunt crocodiles.

I know it’s chilling to read this headline, but on time to TIME We are talking about a situation that has even been the subject. American people hunting would steal the babies of black people who were enslaved. Some are not even 1 year old, some are just toddlers. Babies were taken to the swamp and used to attract crocodiles.

Ropes were tied around the necks and waists of the babies and left to make sounds.

Hunters take the kidnapped babies to the swamp. They tied them around their necks and waists and left them by the river. Babies would normally scream here, splashing the water. As a result of this crocodiles would come ashore and attack babies. At this point, the hunters would shoot the crocodiles to death.

According to the information obtained, crocodiles that come to the babies in just a few minutes, He would grab and bite like a chicken. Wild hunters, who did not care about the lives of black babies, were skinning crocodiles as a result of this hunt.

Did this wild hunting method really exist?

There is a lot of information available on this subject. In 1923, Time magazine announced that crocodile hunting using black babies He said it happened in the town of Chipley, Florida. This town, however, is what Time’s report said.a stupid lie, wrong and ridiculousDespite all these rejections, some news published in the late 1800s and early 1900s included information on this subject.

Black children were left among crocodiles as a means of entertainment in zoos.

dated June 3, 1908 in the Washington Times There is an article titled “Baits alligators with pickaninnies”. The word “Pickaninny” here refers to the black boy. The translation of the title of the article would be “Crocodiles are baiting black children”.

According to this article, two black children were left among more than 25 alligators at the New York Zoo. The person who left these children among the crocodiles is the zookeeper. There is no information in the article about whether this person was punished or not. People are watching these kids too. they were having fun.

The cost of renting the dolls was $2.

An article in Time Magazine in 1923 stated that expert riflemen in Chipley, Florida, used babies to hunt alligators. Black mothers in exchange for taking their babies A service fee of $2 was paid. The article also states that Florida alligator hunters will never miss their targets.

Time, along with this article, stated that this practice was experienced in the same news. there is no concrete evidence also stated. Regardless, black people have been persecuted for many years in America.

While this was happening in America, black people were being exhibited in human gardens in Europe.

We all know that racism is a very bad thing. But not so much 64 years ago, what was like zoos in Europe, but where black people were exhibited instead of animals. There were human parks. We recommend that you take a look at our content about human zoos.

Black people, who were enslaved by showing them as a lower class, can be exposed to racism even today, even though the year is 2022. we hope As technology develops, people become more civilized and we see that racism, violence, animal abuse and so many other evils in the world are something we only listen to in history books.