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Author Finnegan, Terence, 1961-

Title A deed so accursed [electronic resource] : lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 / Terence Finnegan.

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 231 p. : ill.
Series American South series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Lynching -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
Lynching -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813933849 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813933856 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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