Lethal punishment [electronic resource] : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver.
2007
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Lethal punishment [electronic resource] : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver.
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007, ©2006.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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"This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Links to external informational resources, 160 images (38 in color)."--Copyright and Permissions.
Description based on title page screen of July 13, 2007.
"This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Links to external informational resources, 160 images (38 in color)."--Copyright and Permissions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Legal and extralegal executions in the American South
Lethal punishment in Tennessee and Florida
Eleven lynchings for every execution: lethal punishment in northwest Tennessee
"There can be nothing but death": lethal punishment for rape in Shelby County, Tennessee
"The first time a charge like this has ever been tried in the courts": the end of lynching in Marion County, Florida
The mob and the law: mock trials by mobs and sham legal trials
"The first duty of a government": lynching and the fear of anarchy
When the mob ruled: the lynching of Ell Persons
Prevented lynchings: white intervention and black resistance
"No reason why we should favor lynching or hanging": efforts to end legal and extralegal executions in Tennessee.
Lethal punishment in Tennessee and Florida
Eleven lynchings for every execution: lethal punishment in northwest Tennessee
"There can be nothing but death": lethal punishment for rape in Shelby County, Tennessee
"The first time a charge like this has ever been tried in the courts": the end of lynching in Marion County, Florida
The mob and the law: mock trials by mobs and sham legal trials
"The first duty of a government": lynching and the fear of anarchy
When the mob ruled: the lynching of Ell Persons
Prevented lynchings: white intervention and black resistance
"No reason why we should favor lynching or hanging": efforts to end legal and extralegal executions in Tennessee.
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Transcribed from: Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006. xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 9780813537283 9780813537290
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
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This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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