At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Donald G. MathewsSeries:Cambridge Studies on the American SouthPublish date:2017-09-11Pages:354
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316633984ISBN-10:1316633985UPC:9781316633984Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Violence in SocietyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.16 x 6.52 x 0.76 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCNW946C40
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South
The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of...
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316633984ISBN-10:1316633985UPC:9781316633984Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Violence in SocietyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.16 x 6.52 x 0.76 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCNW946C40
Mathews, Donald G.: - Donald G. Mathews has taught at Duke and Princeton Universities, as well as at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has studied and written about religion and the South for over fifty years, publishing three books and over thirty articles. He is the author of Religion in the Old South (1979) and co-author of Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA (1993).
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