Biography
Winfield Anderson was one of the Black workers subjected to forced labor on Arkansas city marshal PaulD.Peacher’s farm in1936. The Daily Worker of November26 reports that Peacher arrested eight Black men during the Southern Tenant Farmers Union strike, that vagrancy sentences were imposed without hearings or counsel, and that the men were forced to work on his farm. Anderson testified that he was arrested at home without explanation and that the men received no food for three days. Peacher was convicted in federal court on seven involuntary-servitude counts. Anderson’s precise arrest and release dates are unresolved.
