A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas. After observing the varying reactions to
This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of Afri
In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms throug