LEASING CONVICTS.
SOLD LIKE MULES. SOME REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. New York, July 27. The Legislative Investigation Committee, sitting at Alabama, elicited some remarkable evidence respecting the state of the convict-lousing system practised in the Southern States. It was shown that at one State prison farm the convicts were lined up and sold like mules to the highest bidder.
One convict was leased out in exchange for seven negroes because he possessed clerical ability. A white boy who was leased out was whipped to death for spilling coffee on a hog.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 187, 29 July 1908, Page 3
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89LEASING CONVICTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 187, 29 July 1908, Page 3
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