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Popular justice: a history of lynching in America

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The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America -- The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America -- Frontier justice -- Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years -- "Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow -- P...

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Main Author: Berg, Manfred (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. Dee c 2011
Series:The American ways series
Subjects:
Geschichte
Lynchjustiz
USA
Online Access:Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz335707106inh.htm
Verlag, Klappentext: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz335707106kla.htm
Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-16491
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Author Notes:Manfred Berg
Table of Contents:
  • The roots of lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North America
  • The rising of lynch law in Antebellum America
  • Frontier justice
  • Lynching, riots, and political terror in the Civil War years
  • "Indescribable barbarism": the lynching of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow
  • Popular justice beyond black and white
  • The struggle against lynching
  • From lynching to hate crime
  • Lynching in American memory and culture.

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