[muawiyah]

From time to time we come upon these anomalies in the law that suggest not everybody in the South was happy with the Compromise of 1876 and managed to slip "Negro Control" back into their law.

This particular situation in Florida where a living human being is being handled as property is highly suggestive of that being the case here.

I've been trying to figure out the class/race angle to this one but haven't quite done so ~ it's just that I suspect that's where this business comes from.

In former times, of course, this sort of thing would not involve white folk of course!

[kingattax]

your characterization of florida as a "southern" state and implying that its filled with nothing but 'racist, redneck good 'ol boys' is absurd.