Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Yeoman Crawshaw returned to the Utah he was dressed down by an officer for not bringing the ship's mail from Cowes. Next morning Crawshaw could not be found. A board of officers decided he had become "mentally demoralized by the use of intoxicating liquor or a drug," had crawled through a porthole and been lost at sea. The board ruled that Crawshaw's death was a result of misconduct...
...Instead, they raid them at regular intervals. A police party, strongly armed, will arrive in cars, nearly always late at night. They break into houses at random, demand "passes" (all Negroes must carry passes to prove they are employed by whites), and turn the houses upside down, looking for liquor. The armed police go in constant danger of their lives. A white policeman's wife writes: "It is no joke to lie awake at night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely in the morning." Of all whites, the police are most hated...
...Negroes. They are also hired out to farm- ers. Charged with farmers' ill treatment of such convict laborers, the Department of Prisons admits: "Abuses happen." In addition to ordinary offenses, Negroes may be sent to prison for 1) going on strike, 2) not having a pass, 3) possessing liquor, 4) "desertion." Desertion means taking a job and then leaving it without the white employer's permission. This is an offense under the "Masters and Servants Act." Most offenders are female domestic servants, most charges are laid by white housewives. (Sometimes as a good excuse for not paying...
...have doubled in the past two years). Part of the increase is due to the Malan government having reclassified as "serious" crime such offenses as assaulting the police and "promoting race hostility." Every month 14,000 Negroes are arrested under the pass laws and 15,500 under the liquor laws. On the Gold Reef, there are three murders every two days. Johannesburg, with a total population of 850,000, has twice the number of crimes committed in Greater London with a total population of more than...
...ante-bellum Natchez there was a law against selling liquor to Negroes, but in spite of it the slave Steven was always getting drunk. When he drank, he tried to escape. When he was caught, he was flogged. On Aug. 10, 1840, his master's diary shows that he was beaten twice: "After he had been Brot home, [I] Hand Cuffed him and Floged Him. In the first place I Knocked him Down at the Building-he then ran away, but was soon Brought Back again . . . I gave Him Late in the afternoon a tolerable severe whiping." Master William...