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The end of public execution : race, religion, and punishment in the American South /
"Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynchi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469670430 1469670437 9781469670423 1469670429 |