ANTI-SLAVERY LAW
CITY MARSHAL TO BE # TRIED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) JONESBORO (Arkansas), 24th November. The City Marshal, Peacher, aged 42, has been arraigned for what may prove to be a new American cause celebre. He is charged with “causing persons to be held as slaves in violation of the anti-slavery law passed after the Civil War.” Thirty witnesses, whites and negroes, are ready to testify. The indictment states that he falsely arrested eight negroes on a vagrancy charge and used them to clear his lands.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 November 1936, Page 2
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87ANTI-SLAVERY LAW Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 November 1936, Page 2
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