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Forsyth State, Georgia, at the switch of the 20th century was home to a large BLACK community that included ministers and educators, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many dark residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches. But, in Sept of 1912, three young dark laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white lady. One man was dragged from a prison cell and lynched out square, two teenagers were hung after having a one-day trial, and soon rings of white "night riders" launched a coordinated campaign of arson and terror, driving a vehicle all 1,098 dark citizens out of the county. Within the wake of the expulsions, whites gathered the crops and overran the livestock of the former friends and neighbors and quietly laid promise to "abandoned" land. The charred ruins of homes and churches disappeared into the weeds before people and places of dark Forsyth were overlooked. National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips instructs Forsyth's tragic history in vivid information and traces its long record of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own years as a child in the 1970s and '80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal offences of his hometown and the violent means where locals retained Forsyth all white well into the 1990s. Blood vessels at the Main is a sweeping American tale that spans the Cherokee removals of the 1830s, the trust and promises of Reconstruction, and the crushing injustice of Forsyth's racial cleaning. With bold storytelling and lyrical prose, Phillips breaks a century-long silence and uncovers a brief history of racial terrorism that is constantly on the form America in the 21st century.
