CONVICT SLAVES.
LEASING SYSTEM. : , METHODS OF AMERICAN SOUTHERN STATES. (bi teleqbaph—riiEss association—corrmon-r.) .i. ' Now York, July 27. \ The Legislative 'Investigation Committee sitting in Alabama clioitod romarknblo, evidence iespooting. tho Stato couvict leasing system, practised in tho' Saut-hbm States. : It was. shown that on -'ono' Stato • prison farm tho convicts were lined up and sold like mules to the" highest bidder. '' One convict was leased out in exchange for seven negroes becauso he possessed clerical ability. . A white boy who was leased out was whipped to death for spilling' coffee on a hog.-.. . r ■■ .-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 7
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93CONVICT SLAVES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 7
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