‘The Negro’ by Lucy E. Parson from The Alarm (Chicago). Vol. 3 No. 2. April 3, 1886.

An extraordinary early letter from Parsons on the racist reality of the U.S. and the specter of a righteous, avenging, Black revolt. Born in bondage, the early life of Lucy Parsons, as you would expect, is obscure. She seems to have been born in bondage around 1851, likely in Virginia, to an enslaved women named […]