A "work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921--a crime that exposed for the nation the existence of 'peonage, ' a form of slavery that gained prominence across the American South after the Civil War. ... By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political expose???, [this book introduces] readers to three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution of John S. Williams, the wealthy plantation owner behind the ...
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A "work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921--a crime that exposed for the nation the existence of 'peonage, ' a form of slavery that gained prominence across the American South after the Civil War. ... By turns police procedural, courtroom drama, and political expose???, [this book introduces] readers to three Americans who spearheaded the prosecution of John S. Williams, the wealthy plantation owner behind the murders, at a time when white people rarely faced punishment for violence against their Black neighbors. The ... polymath James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed the first Black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, marshaled the organization into a full-on war against peonage. Johnson's lieutenant, Walter F. White, a light-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Black man, conducted undercover work at the scene of lynchings and other Jim Crow atrocities, helping to throw a light on such violence and to hasten its end. And Georgia governor Hugh M. Dorsey won the statehouse as a hero of white supremacists--then redeemed himself in spectacular fashion with the 'Murder Farm' affair"--
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