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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
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by Gregory A. Freeman
Sales Rank: 1014801
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 195 pages
Published by: Lawrence Hill Books September 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1556523572
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1556523571
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Library Journal
Fifty-six years after the end of the Civil War, John Williams, a Georgian plantation owner facing a federal investigation of his use of "peons" (poor blacks bailed out of local jails), decided to kill 11 black men to prevent them from testifying against him. With the help of Clyde Manning, his black overseer, he embarked on a series of cold-blooded murders that resulted in two major trials. Based on extensive newspaper coverage, reports from a federal investigation, and trial testimony, this moving narrative account is arguably the most complete history of this event available. Freeman, a writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, concludes that this event helped to define "a complex and crucial, yet almost forgotten, moment in history"Aa moment when, although the South had fulfilled some of the worst assumptions of outsiders, "the citizens of Georgia stood up and declared their limits." Recommended for greater public libraries and academic libraries.ARobert C. Jones, Central Missouri State Univ., Warrensburg
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Fifty years after Slavery was believed to have ended in the U.S., John S. Williams, a Georgia plantation owner, was convicted of murdering 11 "slaves" held in peonage on his property. Also convicted was Clyde Manning, the black overseer who had been raised and used by Williams since childhood. Manning, who supplied crucial testimony against Williams, claimed that he was forced to kill most of the men on threat of his own death. The murders were meant to cover the practice of peonage, the forced indefinite labor of black men charged mostly with vagrancy. Peonage was an open secret in the South as late as the 1920s, when the U.S. Bureau of Investigation, precursor to the FBI, began investigating the illegal practice. Freeman, who has written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, uses newspaper articles and court documents to render a compelling account of the murders, the sensational trial in rural Georgia, and the social mores of the time and the region. And he explores, to chilling effect, the personalities of Williams and Manning. Vanessa Bush
Reader Reviews
This book is one of the most involving reads I ever had, more so cause this is based on concrete facts and the author clearly gives the sources, mentions that the statements are either quoted in toto from courtroom notes or from the newspapers. The author must be applauded for writing on such a sensitive topic and not trying to sensasionalize one side of the argument or the other. I wouldn't recommend it as light reading, this should be read with a view to understand what went on in the southern states before and/or after the great emancipation. It was tremendously helpful to me to understand the varying treatment of the slaves in different plantations, frankly I was confused before by the contradictory treatment of this topic in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and 'Gone with the wind'
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