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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| File Type |
Electronic text and image data. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Note |
Description based on t.p. screen of July 13, 2007. |
| Funding |
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
| Note |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Original Version |
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 |
| Subject |
Lynching -- Tennessee -- History.
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Executions and executioners -- Tennessee -- History.
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Lynching -- Florida -- Ocala -- History.
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Executions and executioners -- Florida -- Ocala -- History.
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Southern States.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780813537306 (E-Book) |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb90036 hdl |
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