While certainly (inadvertently?) generous to the "racial essentialists of the 19th century" for their supposed belief that the more indefensible, lethal crimes were the sole province of whites, I am not sure how to square the assertion with Mississippi's withholding of gun rights from freedmen, in that same period.
While certainly (inadvertently?) generous to the "racial essentialists of the 19th century" for their supposed belief that the more indefensible, lethal crimes were the sole province of whites, I am not sure how to square the assertion with Mississippi's withholding of gun rights from freedmen, in that same period.
Of course, once guns became widely available to all - after about 1910? 1915? - that quaint notion you describe (if true) was put to rest.
While certainly (inadvertently?) generous to the "racial essentialists of the 19th century" for their supposed belief that the more indefensible, lethal crimes were the sole province of whites, I am not sure how to square the assertion with Mississippi's withholding of gun rights from freedmen, in that same period.
Of course, once guns became widely available to all - after about 1910? 1915? - that quaint notion you describe (if true) was put to rest.