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[https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/reviews/980503.03ayrest.html?_r=1&oref=slogin by New York Times] | [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/reviews/980503.03ayrest.html?_r=1&oref=slogin by New York Times] | ||
It was exactly a century ago this year that Sam Hose left his home in rural Georgia for Atlanta. A literate and hard-working black man needing money to help care for his ill mother and his mentally retarded brother, Hose ended up laboring for a white landlord on a plantation outside the city. In the spring of the next year, the two had a falling out over wages. The white man threatened the black man with a pistol and the black man defended himself with the ax he was using to chop wood. Hose accidentally killed his employer and fled to his mother's cabin. | It was exactly a century ago this year that Sam Hose left his home in rural Georgia for Atlanta. A literate and hard-working black man needing money to help care for his ill mother and his mentally retarded brother, Hose ended up laboring for a white landlord on a plantation outside the city. In the spring of the next year, the two had a falling out over wages. The white man threatened the black man with a pistol and the black man defended himself with the ax he was using to chop wood. Hose accidentally killed his employer and fled to his mother's cabin. | ||
=====I Went in Search of Abandoned African-American Cemeteries===== | |||
[https://www.propublica.org/article/abandoned-african-american-cemeteries-illinois-jerrel-floyd by Jerrel Floyd 29/6/18 PROPUBLICA] | |||
To get to St. George Cemetery, especially its oldest section, you have to make your way past branches and thorns, across the weathered hills and over downed trees. Eventually, dozens of scattered headstones, some of them knocked over, come into view. And there, sitting upright, is the gravestone of William Chapman, an African-American veteran of the Civil War who died March 21, 1904. | |||
