Lay This Body Down
Subtitle: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781556523571
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Local history; Slavery & emancipation; United States - 20th Century/20s; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History; Williams, John S; Blacks In The U.S; Offenses And Offenders; Plantation workers; True Crime / Espionage; Murder; History: American; Georgia; Murder - General; Case studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 20th Century; African Americans; Crimes against; Jasper County; Manning, Clyde
First sentence: Jasper and Newton Countries in central Georgia are not all that different from the way they were in 1921, at as far as the more pleasant aspect of Southern culture are concerned.