MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Black Slave Freed in South Carolina
By NCD on Thu, 10/12/2017 - 11:34am |Edwards would force Smith to work from dawn until late into the night, seven days a week, with little or no pay, no benefits and no vacation time, Smith alleged. Some days he would leave so exhausted and weak he had to be carried home and “physically fed drink and food.”
Smith described Edwards like a slave driver. He said the manager would call him racial slurs, and threaten to “stomp” his throat and beat him “until people would not recognize him.”
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