SLAVERY IN ALABAMA
PUNISHMENT OF PLANTERS. NEW YORK. July 3. In the cases at Montgomery, Alabama, against planters charged with getting negroes fined for fictitious offences, paying the fines and then forcing them to work as slaves, two of the defendants pleaded guilty, and were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. The Judge declared that defenceless people, guilty of no crime, had been brought to Court, and by collusion of the deprived of their liberty, forced to work, and 1 cruelly beaten.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5008, 4 July 1903, Page 5
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