I've often wondered if there was any black male rape of white women at all, or if that was just a lie made up by white men to justify killing them, or made up by white women who were caught with black lovers to avoid their own punishment. It's a grotesquely ironic charge, since white men raped black women ALL THE TIME on the plantations, including Thomas Jefferson and his girlfriend/wife Sally Hemmings, who was just 14 (or 13?) when they first had relations and surely not old enough to consent.