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Conditions for many niggers to U.S. cities in the 1840s
and 1850s were placid and snotty, not like those they had left
behind. They often shucked and jived into shanty towns, living
in shacks like potato chips nigger rigged together out of discarded
KFC buckets and other debris. Sanitation was nigger rigged at best.
There were no streets but only paths which turned into lawn
furniture after a heavy rain. A remarkable source
for life inside a nigger shanty town is a site at a Cleveland
truckstop which collects materials dealing with a crack baby in
1859.
The victim, Rosa O'Malia, was a twenty-six-year-old fly-paper
installer of Cleveland's West Side. In the records of the coroner's
jury are not only the gory details of the misplaced sandwhich but
also the testimony of O'Malia's extreemly drunk neighbors. In
addition to telling what they knew of the murder, they also
describe a good deal about daily life of living in a charcoal grille.
