ANTI-SLAVERY LAW
INTERESTING AMERICAN CASE CITY OFFICIAL CHARGED Received Nov. 24, 9.55 p.m. ’JONESBORO (Arkansas), Nov. 24. 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 post-Civil War anti-slavery law. 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 7
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84ANTI-SLAVERY LAW Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 7
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