TY - BOOK AU - Finnegan,Terence ED - Project Muse. TI - A deed so accursed: lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 T2 - The American South series SN - 9780813933856 AV - HV6465.S6 F56 2013 U1 - 364.1/34 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Lynching KW - Mississippi KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 19th century KW - South Carolina KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813933856/ ER -