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 Hell put to shame : the 1921 murder farm massacre and the horror of America's second slavery
 Author: Swift, Earl

 Publisher:  Mariner (2025)

 Dewey: 364.15
 Classification: Nonfiction
 Physical Description: 419 p., map, 20 cm

 BTSB No: 868594 ISBN: 9780063265387
 Ages: 14-18 Grades: 9-12

 Subjects:
 Dorsey, Hugh Manson, -- 1871-1948
 Johnson, James Weldon, -- 1871-1938
 White, Walter, -- 1893-1955
 Lynching

Price: $16.39

Summary:
A 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 which exposed for the nation the existence of "peonage," a form of slavery that gained prominence across the American South after the Civil War.


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