South Carolina Farmer Anthony P. Crawford Was Lynched By White Mob In 1916
In 1916, a white mob lynched Anthony P. Crawford, a 56-year-old Black farmer in South Carolina after he argued with a white merchant over the price of cottonseed. Crawford was assaulted, arrested, and placed in jail after a disagreement with a white store owner over the cost of cottonseed that brought him to the market on Oct. 21, 1916. Crawford was a Black farmer who owned 427 acres of land in Abbeville County.
Crawford was later released on $15 bail, but was later abducted by a mob of at least 200 white men and then lynched at a nearby fairground. A South Carolina newspaper reported the next day: “Negro Strung Up and Shot to Pieces.” Two days later, the remainder of my family was advised to leave Abbeville “for the sake of peace and the best interest of the county.”
The public murder was committed openly, didn’t lead to prosecution or conviction for any members of the mob.
Days after the lynching, Abbeville’s white residents “voted” to force the Crawford family from the town and seize their property. South Carolina’s governor at the time declared himself powerless to protect the family from violence. Most of the surviving relatives left to destinations as distant as New York and Illinois, fragmenting the once strong and close-knit family.
Sources: The Undefeated & Zinn Education Project
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