Meet Author Earl Swift

Meet New York Times bestselling author Earl Swift as he signs copies of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery, a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921. This crime exposed for the nation the existence of the "peonage system," a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South.