Atlanta owns up to legacy of convict labor that rebuilt city

The City of Atlanta's official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn't show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with slavery's successor: convict labor, working in horrific conditions to break granite at the Bellwood Quarry and burn clay at the Chattahoochee Brick Company.

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