Events › Chattahoochee Brick Company and Convict Leasing

Please join us as Anthony Knight from City of Atlanta - Department of City Planning discusses the Chattahoochee Brick Company, owned by former Atlanta Mayor James W. English, supplied bricks for the construction of industrial buildings and city of Atlanta infrastructure, such as roads and sewers starting in 1885.  The factory used leased convict labor, forcing primarily African American men, who were often arrested under petty or dubious charges, to work under brutal, sometimes fatal, conditions to produce a profit for the company's owners.

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