North Carolina Democrats incite lynch mobs to murder hudreds of African Americans in Wilmington

November 10, 1898: Unable to defeat the progressive Fusionists –an amalgam of White Populists and Black Republicans– at the ballot box, North Carolina Democrats incite lynch mobs to murder hudreds of African Americans in Wilmington by depicting the freedmen as sinewy, beady-eyed incubuses in a series of newspaper cartoons alleging rape. The model for the incubus character is almost certainly Bram Stoker’s Dracula which was released in England the previous year.

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