This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Today I'm going to break down a chapter in the half has never been told titled Seed.

In this chapter, Edward Baptist talks about the rape and pillage of black bodies, black women,

to produce a new crop of slaves.

But he also talks about the seed or the birth

of violence among white people against not just

black bodies, because that had been prevalent in slavery but against one another.

And violence being the underpinning of what it means to be a white man in America.

And I think this is profound because today every day we get up we see some

level of violence in our community at the hands of people who are charged with the honor to

serve and protect but it's in their DNA it's in their seed to

exact this kind of violence and I'm going to tell you about a story written about

in this chapter in the half has never been told and

in it Edward Baptist writes about a man named Robert Potter Bob Potter was born in Granville,

North Carolina around 1800.

He was born poor.

He was born uneducated.

He grew up envying wealthy, smart people.

And actually he was very smart.

He just didn't have an education.

And at this time, in the South, if you were white and poor and uneducated, you were basically treated just like a black person in bondage.

And Potter did not like that.

So as a boy he started making friends he was very charismatic. He knew he was a second class citizen but he was very charismatic. He knew he was a second-class citizen but he was

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