In 154 Years, Has Anything Changed? These Images Tell the Story...

Yohanan ELiYah of the New Abolitionists sent me this disturbing graphic where the past is juxtaposed with the present...

A story in  Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 18, 1858, featured an illustration of a man being killed by a shower bath at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York State, entitled  “The Negro convict, More, showered to death.”   “. . . all the water that was in the tank — amounting to from three to five barrels, the quantity is uncertain — was showered upon him in spite of his piteous cries; a few minutes after his release from the bath he fell prostrate, was carried to his cell, and died in five minutes.”