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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...
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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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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Re-Centering
- A Camp Meeting at the Gallows
- Beyond Executions of African American Men for Murder
- Shooting the Sheep-Killing Dogs: Racism in Southern Punishment
- Counting the South's Legal Executions
- Uncivil Executions
- Make it a Secret Silent Monster: Executions in Private.