A court date is scheduled in the fight over the future of an Atlanta site where convicts were forced to work in terrible conditions.
The Chattahoochee Brick Factory, located in the western edge of Atlanta along the Chattahoochee River, used convict labor at the turn of the 20th century. It was “a place of absolute horror,” Douglas Blackmon said. He wrote about the use of convict labor in his book, “Slavery by Another Name,” and talked to WABE about it in a story last year.
“These were places of incredibly high mortality rates,” said Blackmon. “Starvation, maltreatment, constant torture to exact more labor out of the men and handful of women who were forced to work in these places.”
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