Crackers are called ‘Crackers’ for the crack of the whip.
“Not all southerners were slave owners.”
Maybe not, but slavery was the GM of the South. The greatest source of labor in Dixie and southerners rented slaves at planting and harvest time, treating the Africans worse than rented mules.
Men and women were chained hand and foot.
Pronged neck collars deterred slaves from flight.
Branding creed ownership.
No violence was too great to suppress people whites considered sub-human and to this day honkies think they are better than anyone else, especially if they are Christians. Only one end the Bible-Thumpers deserved in this life.
“I am Spartacus.”