‘We’re Not Intimidated No More!’: North Carolina Plantation Descendants Will Not ‘Cower’ to ‘Disrespectful’ Mass Texts About Slavery After Donald Trump’s Election

The descendants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina condemned the mass texts sent to Black Americans nationwide, telling them they’ve been “selected to pick cotton” a day after Donald Trump was re-elected as president. Black people across the country were sent the same text with slight variations telling them they’d been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” The scores of texts told recipients that “executive slaves” would arrive in a “brown van” to transport them to plantations before telling the victims which “plantation group,” labeled A-Z, they belonged in. Left: A screenshot of texts received by Black college students after Donald Trump won his second presidential election on Nov. 5, 2024. (Photos: X/@samiamonae1, Getty Images) Beverly Evans told ABC11 that “the people that got the messages felt disrespected, and we all, as Black people, felt disrespected by that.” The 76-year-old recently learned she is the descendant of a family who was once enslaved on the Stagville Plantation in Durham, North Carolina. According to the Stagville website, the plantation belonged to the Bennehan-Cameron family, who enslaved more than 900 people across 30,000 acres of land in the state. The North Carolina Department of Historic Sites released...