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Title is exactly ""At Riverton: A Negro Attempts a Fiendish Crime""
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"At Riverton: A Negro Attempts a Fiendish Crime"
This is a newspaper story about Hillery ("Jim") Speaks, who was a convict leased by the Robinson Brothers of Hillsboro, Alabama, to work on the Muscle Shoals Canal. Convict-leasing, whereby mostly African Americans were forced to serve their prison…
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