“Alligator Bait” – Not Just A Racial Slur (video) 1

It has been pretty well documented recently that, during slavery and into the 20th Century, black babies were used as alligator bait in North and Central Florida.

A guy in Sanford, near Orlando, told this story to a researcher. He said he had heard it from his grandfather.

The slaves who had babies, they would steal the babies during the course of the day, sometimes when their mothers weren’t watching… Some would be infants, some would be a year old; he said some would be toddlers. He said they would grab these children and take them down to the swamp and leave them in pens like little chicken coops.They would go down there at night, take these babies and… tie them up, put a rope around their neck and around their torso, around here, and tie it tight.