Tue, Jan 14
|Pale Fire Brewing Co.
Books and Brews in January with Earl Swift and "Hell Put To Shame"
WMRA’s January Books & Brews will feature Earl Swift, discussing "Hell Put To Shame".
Time & Location
Jan 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Pale Fire Brewing Co., 217 S Liberty St #105, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, USA
About the Event
About the Book:
Hell Put to Shame by Earl Swift
THE 1921 MURDER FARM MASSACRE AND THE HORROR OF AMERICA'S SECOND SLAVERY
One Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia:the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror emerged: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to learn, the dead were among thousands of Black men enslaved throughout the South in conditions every bit as dire as those before the Civil War.
Hell Put to Shame tells the forgotten story of that mass killing and of…