Lynching in America [electronic resource] : a history in documents /

Lynching in America a history in documents / [electronic resource] : edited by Christopher Waldrep. - New York : New York University Press, c2006. - xxii, 281 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings.


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