Episode -20- The Right Rev. George Washington Carawan and the school teacher Charles  Lassiter. 1852.

Though a preacher of the gospel, The Reverend George Washington Carawan, was a  prominent and powerful North Carolina Baptist minister. A man of violent temper and strong animal passions, more likely to inspire terror than piety in the community and those around him. 

The sorrows he begat in his relationships would follow him to the courtroom for a final tragic act in Carawan’s play of tragedy, life and death.

Dump choices?  Thinking himself smarter than every one else? Or did his luck run out?  Perhaps. several issues came together to solve the problem of The prominent and powerful Reverend George Washington Carawan.