Page "Elaine Race Riot" Paragraph 20

: it had been impossible for negroes to obtain itemized statements of accounts, or in fact to obtain statements at all, and that the manager was preparing to ship their cotton, they being sharecroppers and having a half interest therein, off without settling with them or allowing them to sell their half of the crop and pay up their accounts ....

If it's a crime to represent people in an effort to make honest settlements, then he has committed a crime.