Murder farm

Earl Swift digs into another despicable chapter


Earl Swift unearths heinous history in his narrative nonfiction book, Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery. Photo by John Robinson.

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