Jai Voulu: Voulu, J: Viola Loves in the Land of Terror, Fester Einband

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Viola loves in the land of terror for our great-grandchildren. For them, we too entangle ourselves within the roots of SUPREMACY: from where does it come; how does it thrive; what do we do? We tell the story of what our great-grandchildren will crave, yet have never experienced: PRIVACY. Viola's romance culminated in her deathbed confession. Her dying words, spoken on March 1, 1919, stopped a new reign of terror before it could begin.

Conjure Justice is the first in a series of twenty-one novellas presenting the situation of Viola Parr, a young Athenian woman. She died of a criminal abortion. The osteopath Dr. William G. Waters performed the procedure at the behest of Viola's lover, Dr. Maxwell Summerlin a married man and prominent social leader. Viola loved her boss, Maxie. Both Waters and Summerlin were convicted of homicide. The judge who presided over the trial was Andrew J. Cobb, a former justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. In 1905, Justice Cobb established legal precedent for the right to privacy. The case was brought by the celebrated Austro-Hungarian fresco painter Paolo Pavesich. The right to privacy created by artist Paolo Pavesich and Justice Andrew Cobb became the foundation of reproductive rights in the United States. Andrew and Paolo were well known Athenians during Viola's life.

Summerlin was Commander of a regional secret militia. At that time, Georgia's militias, both public and private, concerned themselves with the oppression of Afro-Americans. Slavery had been re-engineered by peonage. Afro-American men were prevented from voting after 1903 through legislation and sex-based, systemic terror, including lynching.

By 1919, Euro-Americans feared women's suffrage, believing Afro-American women would dominate the polls unless a new form of terror could be implemented. Euro-American supremacists sought ways to terrorize Afro-American women as sex criminals deserving extrajudicial death. The trial of Viola's killers became a test case for decriminalizing the intentional murder of women by abortion. Criminal abortion was positioned to become the new lynching.