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Author Vandiver, Margaret, author.

Title Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
©2006
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-273) 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.
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Subject Lynching -- Tennessee -- History.
Lynching.
Tennessee.
History.
Executions and executioners -- Tennessee -- History.
Executions and executioners.
Lynching -- Florida -- Ocala -- History.
Florida -- Ocala.
Executions and executioners -- Florida -- Ocala -- History.
Southern States.
Southern States.
Southern States -- Biography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Vandiver, Margaret. Lethal punishment. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006 0813537282 0813537290 (DLC) 2005011353 (OCoLC)59756123
ISBN 0813541069 (electronic book)
9780813541068 (electronic book)
9780813537306 (electronic book)
0813537304 (electronic book)
0813537282
9780813537283
0813537290
9780813537290

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