Amy Spain, Black Female Confederate Prisoner

#OTD Mar 10, 1865: Confederate soldiers hanged Amy Spain, a young Black woman, from a sycamore tree on the courthouse lawn in Darlington, SC. Accused of “treason and conduct unbecoming a slave,” Amy was sentenced to death by a military tribunal.

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