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Louis Congo: From enslaved to executioner

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Louis Congo, who was enslaved in the Louisiana colony in the early 1700s, was set free in November 1725. In exchange for his freedom, however, he was forced to become the public executioner for the colony – a different form of slavery. According to Black Perspectives, execution was not a desirable career. “The executioner,” Menika Dirkson wrote for the website, “indiscriminately inflicted pain and death on alleged criminals, regularly witnessed …
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