The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Hell Put to Shame tells the forgotten story of 1921 mass killings and of the revelations about peonage, or debt slavery, that it placed before a public self-satisfied that involuntary servitude had ended at Appomattox more than fifty years before. The result is a story that remains fresh and relevant a century later, as the nation continues to wrestle with seemingly intractable challenges in matters of race and justice. And the 1921 case at its heart argues that the forces that so roil society today have been with us for generations.     432 pages  hc

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