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To try to stay alive, victims of convict leasing would:
AMPUTATE THEIR OWN FEET
PLACE LYE INTO RAZOR CUTS TO CREATE FESTERING SORES INJECT KEROSENE UNDER THEIR SKIN FRACTURE THEIR ARMS AND LEGS AMPUTATE THREE FINGERS FROM ONE HAND OR SEVER THEIR ACHILLES TENDONS.
When tendons were cut, they would be reconnected by doctors and the victims would be sent back to the fields.
Gunshot trauma sustained at the prison camp
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