1893 AMERICAN SIBERIA PRISON LIVE OAK FLORIDA AFRICAN AMERICANS

OFFERED HERE is the 1893 printing of The American Siberia: Fourteen Years in a Florida Convict Camp. By J.C. Powell, Captain of the Florida Convict Camp. Published by W.B. Conkey Co., Chicago. Sized 8x5 inches, bound in period cloth with a paper spine label. A brutal narrative of Florida convicts, including many blacks, subjected to Draconian treatment in a prison at Live Oak, Florida. During Reconstruction, Live Oak was the scene of extensive violence by white supremacists who whipped and assaulted Black citizens in order to chase them from the community. During Reconstruction, Live Oak was the scene of extensive violence by white supremacists who whipped and assaulted Black citizens in order to chase them from the community. In 1944, 15 year-old African American Willie James Howard was lynched in Live Oak for having "expressed his affections" to a white girl. He was subsequently murdered by a group of white men including the girl's father, former state legislator A.P. "Phil" Goff.