Episodes Located: DADE, Georgia in the 1880's
- Convict Standoff
July 13, 1886 to July 14, 1886
DADE, Georgia
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Law, Race-RelationsIt was already hot. As the Superintendent lined the convicts up to march back to the Dade County coal mines for another day of exhausting labor, one group refused to move. At the head of a long line of men chained together, the leader of the rebellion spoke up to Colonel Tower. He said that he and all the rest of the men from his stockade refused to work another day in the heat at their awful work....