Not too many people know the story of Jordan Hatcher. He was a 17-year-old enslaved tobacco worker in Richmond, Virginia. Hatcher became well-known when he was charged with assaulting and killing white overseer, William Jackson. The teenager had been working at the Walker and Harris tobacco factory when Jackson began whipping him with a cowhide for […]

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