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1921 – Georgia Willams Plantation Murders: farmer John S. Williams and his black overseer Clyde Manning were convicted in the deaths of 11 blacks working as peons at Williams' farm. [13] [14] Williams was the only white farmer in Georgia convicted of murder for killing black peons since April 1, 1877. [15]
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1963.
Peons were poor Hispano or Genízaro workers indebted to wealthy landowners whom they served. [1] Northern abolitionists frequently condemned this system. [1] In the 1850s, New Mexico adopted a pro-slavery position. New Mexico's territorial legislature passed a law restricting the presence of free blacks and established a slave code. [2]
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1921, Georgia, Williams Plantation Murders: Farmer John S. Williams and his black overseer, Clyde Manning, were convicted in the deaths of 11 blacks working as peons in Williams' farm. [23] Williams was the first white person convicted of murder for killing a black person in Georgia since 1877. Manning died in prison in 1927.
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934) [1] is an American author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.He is best known for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.