Coal Creek history: How Welsh coal miners ended convict leasing and slavery in Tennessee wyshradio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wyshradio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It is always interesting to read information relating to the early days of Rhea County, and this article from the Tuesday, January 28, 1908 Chattanooga Star newspaper is certainly no
Many people believe the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws slavery, but that s not exactly true. The 13th Amendment bans slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." A long series of nationally publicized events known as the Coal Creek War tested this concept.