SLAVERY IN UNITED STATES.
United States marshals have arrested five prominent residents of Goodwater, Alabama, on the extraordinary charge of keeping slaves. In a limekiln stockade, guarded by armed men, were found seventyeight negroes.1 In some parts of the South it is the custom to. employ criminals from the local gaols at outside labour, but not ono of these seventy-eight negroes had been convicted of any crime. They were kept at forced labour, and given nothing but food and clothes. The arrests have caused a sensation through the South,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7536, 9 May 1903, Page 7
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