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[1999]
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"The John S. Williams plantation in Jasper County, Georgia, was operated largely with the labor of slaves. This may not come as a surprise, except that the year was 1921, fifty-six years after the conclusion of the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using "peons" - poor blacks bailed out of local jails, forced to work under threat of whippings, locked up at night, and chased down by bloodhounds if they tried to escape. But Williams's reaction to...
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[2024]
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On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...
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