Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips6/30/2023 Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.īut then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.įorsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the 20th century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children.
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