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This mob will surely take my life : lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 / / Bruce E. Baker



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Autore: Baker Bruce E. <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: This mob will surely take my life : lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 / / Bruce E. Baker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2008
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina: 364.1/34
364.134
Soggetto topico: Lynching - North Carolina - History
Lynching - South Carolina - History
Soggetto geografico: North Carolina Race relations
South Carolina Race relations
Caroline du Nord Relations raciales
Caroline du Sud Relations raciales
South Carolina
North Carolina
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Reconstruction violence and the foundations of the lynching era : Unionville, S.C. 1871 -- Black politics and lynching after Reconstruction : Giles Good, Yorkville, S.C. 1887 -- Rape and lynching in the new South : Manse Waldrop, Central, S.C. 1887 -- North Carolina's turn against lynching : J.V. Johnson, Wadesboro, N.C. 1906 -- Lies and lynching : Richard Puckett, Laurens, S.C. 1913 -- A wartime lynching : Rev. Watson T. Sims, Sharon, S.C. 1917 -- A disgrace to North Carolina : Oliver Moore, Tarboro, N.C. 1930.
Sommario/riassunto: Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Everyday interactions could easily escalate into mob violence, and did so thousands of times. Bruce Baker examines this important aspect of American history by taking seven lynchings in North Carolina and South Carolina and studying them in detail. He succeeds in getting behind the superficial accounts and explanations provided at the time to explain the deeper causes and wider contexts of these events. Many studies of lynching begin only after Reconst
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ISBN: 1-282-87415-2
9786612874154
1-4411-3722-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785489803321
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