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As This true story unfolds, each detail seems more shocking, and surprises continue in the aftermath, with a sensational trial galvanizing the nation and marking a turning point in the treatment of black Americans.".
Enlisting the aid of his trusted black farm boss, Clyde Manning, he began methodically killing his slaves.
Williams was not alone in using peons, but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he decided to destroy the evidence.
Williams Plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slavesand This was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War.
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