Abram Colby: The Black Politician Who Was Brutally Tortured by a White Mob for Refusing to Leave Office

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Abram Colby was dragged from his bed to the woods by a white mob on October 29, 1869, where he was beaten with sticks and leather straps for more than three hours. Two days earlier, he had refused a $5,000 bribe to abandon his political allegiance and surrender his seat in the Georgia legislature to […]
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