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Article: Legacy of resistance: uncovering the history of collective action by black agricultural workers in Central East Arkansas from the 1860s to the 1930s.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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There is a broad, sweeping, lonesome bend in Big Creek only a few miles below Trenton and known as "The Basin" where the giant alligator gar (sic) flounce lazily and the scaly, venomous moccasin lay unmolested on partially submerged logs and tops of fallen trees and where along the shores ancient cypresses standing as silent sentinels rear gaunt and ghost-like against the sky that Negroes contend is haunted and where it is said that in the dark stillness of a moonless summer night the ghost of Bryant Singfield can be seen to emerge from the murky depths and a terrifying voice can be heard pleading vainly for mercy.
- Legend of a Reconstruction-era black labor ...