SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES.
*. v Miss M. C. Terrell describes the orrors of the convict lease system and the chain-gangs whioh constitute peonage in the Southern States. She. ouotes evidence to show that the convicts, black and white, are forced to work from fourteen to twenty hours a day, are often provided with no clothes, shoes, beds, heat in winter, or ventilation in summer, are given rotten food, are allowed to die for want of medical attention, the women are outraged, the old men too feeble to work are. beaten to death, young^ men are killed for the mere sake of killing. There are in Georgia at the present time 1500 men who were sold to the highest bidder in April, 1904, for a .period of five years.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9252, 3 June 1908, Page 1
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