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Cannot believe i lived one county over in georgia and didnt even know this was going on

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I realize the research for this book must have been painfully difficult

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A woman is raped and murdered and black men are accused

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The chapters on the lynching and the legal lynching make for wrenching reading someone was guilty of murder but these seem to have been victims rather than real perpetrators

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Their bodies were not subject to the usual souvenir collecting the ropes were cut into pieces for souvenirs

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Worth noting is that the cleansing was in 1912 before the emergence on the modern kkkthe original as explained by the author was broken by federal law enforcement by 1873

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As also described the loss of the freedmans bureau led to a sorry business of exploitation of poor blacks including indentures of children as young as 5 to serve till they were 21

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Mentioned in passing is the first cleansing in the area in the 1830s at the time of settlement when cherokees and others were forced out in much the same way black people were a few generations later the indians had taken up farming and formed prosperous communities which were broken up by terror and their farms were simply taken