The uprising was an act of resistance meant to defy the city’s centuries-long commitment to anti-Blackness.
This “Black resistance” surfaced in a well of ancestral memory. The first moments of the video captured scenes not unlike the countless mob attacks, public lynchings and everyday assaults of Black bodies that invested the Montgomery attackers with white privilege in the first place. Their lawlessness and abandon are emblematic of the white supremacy that engenders white privilege.
The phrase “they sold him down the river” is widely used to identify the victim of someone else’s wrongdoing, but the phrase originates in the domestic slave trade. For enslaved Black people, being “sold down the river” was athat remains so powerful in Black people’s ancestral memory, that the idiom was often expressed with great solemnity even when used as a turn of phrase as recently as the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The Equal Justice Initiative is a Montgomery-based organization committed to racial justice, criminal legal system reform, anti-poverty and public education through The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. According to the EJI’s 2018 report titled,During the last twenty years of American slavery, no slave market was more central or conspicuous than the one in Montgomery, Alabama.
The EJI report documents the parade of enslaved Black people to containment facilities in Montgomery, the haunting wails of people whose children and other loved ones were sold away from them, the sexual exploitation of those captured, the torturous march to auction blocks miles away from the river, even the kidnapping of free Black people in the North who were “sold down the river” to auction blocks like the one in Montgomery.
This violent history, which enriched Montgomery’s elite, informed the uprising against white brutality on August 5.
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