At the Altar of Lynching : Burning Sam Hose in the American South / Donald G. Mathews.
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...
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Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Cambridge studies on the American South.
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