Tue, May 07
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Book Launch: Hell Put to Shame by Earl Swift
Join us for Earl Swift's book launch of his most recent work: Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery. An honest, raw, and gripping depiction of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921.
Time & Location
May 07, 2024, 7:00 PM
Location is TBD
About the Event
Join us for our Book Launch!
Our May 7th, 2024 discussion is on “Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery” by Earl Swift
About the book:
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery. An honest, raw, and gripping depiction of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921. This story tells the forgotten story of that mass killing and of the revelations about peonage, or debt slavery, that it placed before a public self-satisfied that involuntary servitude had ended at Appomattox more than fifty years before. The result is a story that remains fresh and relevant a century later, as the nation continues to wrestle with seemingly intractable challenges in matters of race and justice. And the 1921 case at its heart argues that the forces that so roil society today have been with us for generations.
About the author:
Earl Swift, a journalist and author, is a Waynesboro local. He has written for major magazines & newpaper features and seven books. Since 2012, he has been a fellow of Virginia Humanities at the University of Virginia.