Convicted of Murder Growing Out of Modern-Day Slavery in Georgia, Aug. 1, 1922

Convicted of Murder Growing Out of Peonage

Covington, Ga., July 29—Clyde Manning, negro farm boss on the Williams plantation, near here, where a number of negroes were killed last year, was convicted late yesterday of murder by a superior court jury which fixed his sentence at life imprisonment.

John Williams, owner of the farm, already is serving a life sentence.

This was Manning’s second trial, the first verdict having also been a life term. He confessed to taking part in the slayings, but asserted it was at orders of Williams, who, he said, wanted to hide peonage conditions.

From The Western Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N.C., Aug. 1, 1922. Peonage was a way to keep workers as slaves.

Many North Carolinians followed the story of murder to cover up modern-day (1922) slavery in Covington, Georgia. You can read the story as it unfolded in 1922 in the following links in Rural North Carolina History:

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/williams-kills-11-negroes-fearing-they.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/case-against-john-williams-accused-of.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/john-s-williams-says-hes-innocent-as.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/final-arguments-as-williams-manning.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/eight-victims-on-williams-farm-named.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/john-wiliams-guilty-of-murder-sentenced.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2022/08/convicted-of-murder-growing-out-of.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/sons-of-john-williams-convicted-of.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-victims-discovered-on-john.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/04/murphy-family-flees-rumor-of-negro.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/jury-selected-trial-of-john-williams.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/04/john-wiliams-guilty-of-murdering-to.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/newton-grand-jury-indicts-john-williams.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/04/john-williams-given-life-sentence-for.html

ruralnchistory.blogspot.com/2021/04/williams-convicted-but-grand-jury-to.html