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Rent Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: Jul 2002
Genre: History - General
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 224
Synopsis
The John Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves--not surprising, except that the year was 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using 'peons, ' poor blacks bailed out of local jails, but his reaction to a federal investigation was unbelievable. He decided to destroy the evidence, to kill 11 black men who could testify to the situation.