"At Riverton: A Negro Attempts a Fiendish Crime"
This is a newspaper story about Hillery ("Jim") Speaks, who was a convict leased by the Robinson Brothers of Hillsboro, Alabama, to work on the Muscle Shoals Canal. Convict-leasing, whereby mostly African Americans were forced to serve their prison sentences performing manual labor, was a...
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Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
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Online Access: | https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/315 |
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