They leapt upon Annie as if they had been waiting for her, and in a sense no doubt they had. She was everything wrong with their world: a young black woman making money and making a point at the same time. They called her "mud-skin," "Negress" and "bitch." They used a host of other names familiar and novel. From behind anonymising screens, they threatened her life day by day. Her post-bag was vast and horrible.