Once more than one strike occurred or when victims started to include people with high standing or those whose activities should not have offended whites, fear circulated and intensified. Residents worried constantly about being attacked. A Georgian man fled his home at night after a white band in Pike County asked about him and his whereabouts. One night, he unknowingly passed his pursuers on the road as he was returning home from preaching. By the time the men returned for the Georgian two days later, he had fled his community for Griffin.121 Unhappy that they could not get their target, the
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