Editing Madison, Florida (section)

==History==
The territory now known as Madison County was ruled at various times by [[Spain]] and The United States of America. This area was developed for cotton [[Plantation complexes in the Southern United States|plantation]]s dependent on the labor of [[Slavery in the United States|enslaved]] African Americans. After the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and emancipation, many [[freedmen]] and their descendants stayed in the region, working as [[sharecroppers]] or tenant farmers.

Racial violence of whites against blacks increased after the [[Reconstruction era]], reaching a peak near the turn of the 20th century. The following [[African Americans]] were [[Lynching in the United States|lynched]] in Madison: Savage and James in 1882,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAJSAQAAMAAJ&q=independent+party+florida+frank+pope&pg=PA701 |title = Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress |last1 = Congress |first1 = United States |year = 1889}}</ref> Charles Martin, 1 February 1899; both James Denson and his stepson, 7 January 1901; and an unidentified man, 9 February 1906.<ref name="lynchings">[http://www.ourtimepress.com/view-from-here-never-forget-the-lynchings-list/ David Mark Greaves, "View From Here: Never Forget -(The Lynching List)"], 3 February 2012; accessed 19 March 2018</ref>