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Court Rules South Carolina Man Convicted Of Enslaving Black Employee Must Pay Back Over $500K Share John Christopher Smith, who is disabled, was beaten and tortured by Bobby Paul Edwards Published 20 hours ago Written by BET Staff A White restaurant manager who beat, tortured and enslaved a mentally disabled Black employee for several years has now been ordered to pay him $546,000.  In November of 2019, Bobby Paul Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the abuse and “forced labor” of John Christopher Smith, who worked extensive hours at the re...

He was happy with his employment at the restaurant, according to court documents, until Edwards took over the business from his brother in 2009. At that point, Edwards moved Smith into a roach-infested apartment he owned, which Smith described in an  ABC 15 interview as little more than an office with a bed in it. He refused to let Smith see his family, threatened to have him arrested and called him racial slurs, according to court documents.  South Carolina enslaved black worker, John Christopher Smith of Conway. ‘I couldn’t see anyone’  ‘I couldn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t se...

Black man enslaved by white manager owed more than US$500,000 in restitution Newshub 4 hrs ago Crystal Wu © Facebook / While Black John Christopher Smith was verbally and physically abused by restaurant manager Bobby Paul Edwards. A Black man who was enslaved for five years at a restaurant in South Carolina is owed more than half a million dollars in restitution, a court has ruled. John Christopher Smith, who has intellectual disabilities, worked at J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, where he was verbally and physically abused from 2009 to 2014. Bobby Paul Edwards, ...

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 17:54 UTC Bobby Paul Edwards (L), John Christopher Smith (R) A former Conway restaurant manager serving a 10-year prison sentence for forcing a man with intellectual disabilities to work more than 100 hours a week without pay owes the former employee double the amount in restitution — $546,000, a court ruled. Bobby Paul Edwards was ordered to pay John Christopher Smith $273,000 in back pay as part of the sentencing in pleading guilty to a forced labor charge in 2019. But the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this month that Smith should get the extra money because of feder...

Black man who was made a modern-day slave by restaurant manager is owed $546k Bobby Paul Edwards was previously ordered to pay John Christopher Smith, who started working for Edwards in 1990, $273,000 in backpay. By The Black Lives Matter slogan written on a sign at a protest. Getty Images Story at a glance A court has ruled that a former restaurant manager imprisoned for forcing an intellectually disabled Black man to work 100-hour weeks without pay must give the man more than $500,000. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Smith should get addi...