White Caps Around Morrisville (1910)

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White Caps Around Morrisville (1910)

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WHITE CAPS AROUND MORRISVILLE.

TWO NEGROES ARE SEVERELY BEATEN AND STABBED BY THE “REGULATORS.”

Morrisville, March 29:—Again there is a commotion among the colored population. Monday night a party of “white-caps” went to a little town South of Nesmith known as “Bluford Town” and between 1 and 2 o’clock a. m., paid a visit to Redmond Bluford’s house, took him out and gave him a severe beating. This is the first time that such an occurrence has happened in our neighborhood. A good beating it was, too. The negro’s face was bruised up pretty badly, one tooth knocked out, two more loosened and his back beaten into a mass of bruises. Redmond Bluford is a bad, overbearing, “sassy” negro and probably gave ample provocation for the lawless deed on the part of the “white-caps.”

Saturday night before a crowd of men, including white and colored, gathered at Warsaw, about six miles from here, and beat up Alex Scott, a helpless and inoffensive negro boy, who had done no one any harm and was well-behaved generally. Yet he got beaten over the head until he is a sight, besides being badly cut. He is stabbed over the heart, in both shoulders and in his back. The wound over the heart, it is said, but for the knife-blade striking a bone, would have killed the negro in his tracks, but he is getting along very well now.

Historical Context

Archival Note: The “White Caps” were vigilante groups active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This article documents a period of intense social volatility and racial violence in rural South Carolina, providing critical primary source evidence of these occurrences.

Archival Citation

“White Caps Around Morrisville,” The County Record (Kingstree, S.C.), March 29, 1910. [Source: University of South Carolina Libraries / Chronicling America]
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