Question

At the end of the nineteenth century insulting a white person in the south could get a black person User: At the end of the nineteenth century insulting a white person in the south could get a black person _______.

a. fined.
c. imprisoned.
b. lynched.
d. fired from their job.

Answer 1

At the end of the nineteenth century, when someone who was of a black colour would insult someone who was of white color, this could get the latter person; namely a black person, either lynched or even fired from their job. This depended mostly on the type of job and where such a person would work and what his surrounding were.