The texts instructed recipients to “board a bus” that would transport them to a “plantation” to work as slaves, officials said.

Several federal and state agencies are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week. The text messages invoking slavery were sent to black men,

You have been selected to be a house slave’ – read one of the messages Black Americans received following Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections. A wave of racist texts with references to slave catchers’ and ‘picking cotton’ were sent to people,