Talk:Georgia and Alabama Railway

Deletion of erroneous paragraph
I've deleted the following paragraph, which accurately reflects the information in the source given; however, the source must be mistaken, as the G&A Railway was not formed until 1895. On the comprehensive railga.com site, I find no listing of a "Georgia and Alabama Railroad," such as the source in this paragraph refers to. I'm posting the paragraph here in case another editor can use it:


 * The railroad was built using the labor of convicts. On May 11, 1868, Thomas Rugor, Georgia's provisional governor, issued a convict lease for 100 African American prisoners, who would have been former slaves, to William Fort for work on the Georgia and Alabama Railroad as a solution to the labor shortage problem. (Todd, W. (2005). Convict Lease System. In The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 1, 2006, from http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2635) Convict leasing was a system of penal labour instituted some parts of the South after the emancipation of slaves by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865.

Good info, but not applicable to the G&A Railway. Textorus (talk) 19:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)