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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
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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
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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
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Without Sanctuary
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Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.