Hell Put To Shame

📚 Hell Put to Shame by Earl Swift

In 1921, the discovery of bodies in a Georgia river exposes the murders of eleven Black farmworkers—and a system that kept people trapped in forced labor decades after emancipation.

Earl Swift follows the investigation and trial, revealing how debt, intimidation, and racial violence sustained peonage across the American South. Through this devastating case, he examines the people who profited from that system and the struggle to bring their crimes to light.

Combining true crime with deeply researched history, Hell Put to Shame is a powerful read for those interested in the Jim Crow era, racial injustice, and overlooked chapters of American history. (publishersweekly.com, books.apple.com)

**some water damage on the first few pages**