1892 newspaper NEGR0ES THREATEN to FLEE ARKANSAS after LYNCHING Planters alarmed

Description: 1892 newspaper NEGR0ES THREATEN to FLEE ARKANSAS after LYNCHING Planters alarmed 1892 newspaper NEGR0ES THREATEN to FLEE ARKANSAS after LYNCHING in Texarcana, AR ; however, the local planters are alarmed of losing their NERG0 field labor on their farms - inv # 8V-437 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL wild west NEWSPAPER, the Leadville Herald Democrat (Leadville, COLORADO) dated May 4, 1892. This 1892 newspaper contains a front page heading: "THE NEGR0 EXODUS" with a report of Black field laborers in Arkansas threatening to leave the state and go back to Africa in the aftermath of the lynching (burning alive at the stake) of Edward Coy in Texarkana, Arkansas; however, the White planters were worried that a mass exodus of Black field hands from Arkansas would prove to be a major problem for them (the planters). On February 20, 1892, Edward Coy, a thirty-two-year-old African-American man, was burned at the stake in Texarkana (Miller County) before a crowd of approximately 1,000 people. Ida B. Wells, a journalist and prominent anti-lynching crusader, described Coy’s murder as one of the most shocking and repulsive in the history of lynching. Coy, described in press accounts as “mulatto,” was charged with a crime “from which the laws provide adequate punishment. Ed Coy was charged with assaulting Mrs. Henry [Julia] Jewell, a white woman. A mob pronounced him guilty, strapped him to a tree, chipped the flesh from his body, poured coal oil over him, and the woman in the case set fire to him.”According to the New York Times, Jewell was attacked and raped by a “negro” who visited her house to sell hogs to her husband. The man attacked her when she told him her husband had gone to town. Following the attack, her husband returned and gave the alarm. Men scoured the country around Texarkana in all directions. Two suspects were apprehended, but Julia Jewell pronounced them innocent.During the search, it was learned that the suspect being sought was named Ed Coy. It was believed that Coy had fled “northwards towards Little River County, Arkansas.” Another suspect was arrested and brought before Jewell, who “pronounced him not the man, although the hat and clothes he wore looked exactly like those of her assailant.” The prisoner explained the clothing by saying that “he and Coy had been together on Sunday and Monday and at the latter’s request they had swapped clothes. Coy said that they were after him for some minor offense.”The next morning, a farmer, W. B. Scott, who lived just five miles outside of Texarkana, found Ed Coy and held him until a posse, headed by Noah Sanderson, arrived and took possession of Coy. The posse, consisting of about fifty mounted guards, “attended the prisoner to town, arriving…about 9 o’clock.” Jewell identified Coy as the man who attacked her.By 2:00 p.m., a decision had been made to hang Coy. A crowd of 1,000 marched Coy to the Iron Mountain roundhouse. A large stake was found here, “and in a twinkling he was securely bound to it. One from the mob advanced with a can of coal oil, and the crowd then knew what fate was in store for the negro.” The crowd cried, “BURN HIM! BURN HIM!” Julia Jewell, the alleged rape victim, was given a torch. She looked at Coy, looked at the torch, and seemed to falter until, as one, the entire crowd yelled, “Burn him!” She applied the torch, and the crowd watched Coy burn alive.It was reported in a “Special” to the Republic newspaper of Texarkana that “Mrs. Henry Jewell was a respectable farmer’s wife, with a five-months-old child at the breast.” However, an investigation by Judge Albion Winegar Tourgée, a pioneer civil rights activist, published in the Chicago Inter Ocean on October 1, 1892, stated, “The woman who was paraded as a victim of violence was of bad character; her husband was a drunkard and a gambler. She was publicly reported and generally known to have been criminally intimate with Coy for more than a year previous. She was compelled by threats, if not by violence, to make the charge against the victim.” (It is unclear if Tourgée traveled to Arkansas for his investigation.) Indeed, Coy contended, right up until his death, that he and Jewell were lovers by mutual desire and consent. As she applied the torch to his oil-soaked body, he turned to her and asked how she could burn him after they had “been sweethearting” so long.Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect the purchased item from damage in the mail. Upon request by the buyer, we can ship by USPS Media Mail to reduce postage cost; however, please be aware that USPS Media Mail can be very slow in its time of transit to the buyer. 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