Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves by Gregory A. Freeman

Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves

Gregory A. Freeman

224 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves--and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using "peons," but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelieva...

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