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Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner
Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner
In May of 1918, a white plantation owner in Georgia was killed by a Black laborer he had beaten and abused. What followed wasn’t a trial or investigation… it was a mob. A violent, racist mob that left 13 people dead, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child. This episode walks through the brutal aftermath of Hampton Smith’s murder, how the system of convict leasing laid the groundwork for modern-day slavery, and why Mary Turner’s story still echoes over a century later. It’s about power, fear, and the cost of speaking out when…
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