Of Persons Unknown
Sam GowinStories of law, trial and the land in the American South
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Prison Ducking – Then and Now
Ducking, or downing the duck, is when a prison inmate slowly grooms or builds trust with prison staff by asking for minor things over time. Seemingly harmless requests, for instance, “can I have one more minute” or another pen, leads to lar...
A Tale of Two Hangings: The Last Legal Hangings in Georgia
In 1923 Gervis Bloodworth and Willis Jones, 19 and 20 years old, hatched a plan to leave their family (and wife), steal money and a car and run off with another man’s wife. The victim, Mr. Howard Underwood, was a medicine seller, a husband...
The Origins of Racial Food Stereotypes
A raccoon steals chickens. That’s where the racial epithet “c—n” comes from.
Food stereotypes come from a similar idea that young black men in the old South stole chickens and watermelons. When the stereotype was brought up, or invoked, th...
On the Idealism of Youth
A passage from Carl T. Rowan’s “South of Freedom” has stayed with me.
It’s from the story of the desegregation of the University of Oklahoma which occurred in the late 1940’s, - well before most universities. The success of integration was...
Peons in Hell (Jasper County, Georgia 1921)
In early 1921, federal agents George Brown and A.J. Wismer visited John S. Williams’s 2,000-acre plantation in Jasper County, Georgia, to investigate reports of peonage—the practice of forcing men to work off jail fines through forced labor...
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