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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781469670430 |