Moses of Mississippi: The Slave Who Drowned His Overseer in the Rice Floods at Midnight

Moses worked the rice fields, where water rose waist-deep each night. After his overseer beat his pregnant wife, Moses dragged the man into the flooded paddies and held him under until the thrashing stopped. At sunrise, the body floated to the bank. Moses was gone, and workers whispered that the frogs croaked his name for weeks.