Tony Joe White singing about poke sallet. Tony Joe might want to read this article by Jean Weese of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
Abolitionist Quaker Benjamin Lay (1681-1760) crashed a Philadelphia meeting of the slave-owning Quaker leadership with a hollowed out Bible he had filled with blood-red pokeberry juice. In an act of protest he plunged a sword into the Bible spraying the crowd with fake pokeberry blood. On another occasion he entered a Quaker meeting dressed as a black man and commenced whipping the assembled Friends.
Benjamin Lay
A righteous man
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