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A deed so accursed : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 /

From the end of Reconstruction to the onset of the civil rights era, lynching was prevalent in developing and frontier regions that had a dynamic and fluid African American population. Focusing on Mississippi and South Carolina because of the high proportion of African Americans in each state during...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finnegan, Terence, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Colección:American South series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Strictly a white man's country, with a white man's civilization" : lynching in Mississippi
  • "To hell with the constitution" : lynching in South Carolina
  • "No rights for the negro which a white man is bound to respect" : lynching and political power in Mississippi and South Carolina
  • "The equal of some white men and the superior of others" : African American victims of lynching
  • "An example must be made" : lynch mobs and the response of African Americans.