Abstract

Slavery in Georgia, A. D. 1921

White men stand together in Georgia. Their ascendancy is maintained by force. To them Negroes are a source of labor. There are many instances of benevolent paternalism. But in any full sense Negroes are not considered a human being. If a crime is committed against a Negro it is practically impossible to prove it: unless it assumes the dimensions of the wholesale murders practiced in Jasper County. White men in Newton County freely admit that peonage was general in Jasper County. And an officer of the U.S. Government out of his own detailed and accurate information told the author that the terrible murder cases in Jasper County differed not in kind, only in the number of victims, from Negro slavery practiced throughout rural Georgia.