A deed so accursed [electronic resource] : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 / Terence Finnegan.
Material type: TextSeries: The American South seriesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN:- 9780813933856
- 0813933854
- 364.1/34 23
- HV6465.S6 F56 2013
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.
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