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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Re-Centering -- A Camp Meeting at the Gallows -- Beyond Executions of African American Men for Murder -- Shooting the Sheep-Killing Dogs: Racism in Southern Punishment -- Counting the South's Legal Executions -- Uncivil Executions -- Make it a Secret Silent Monster: Executions in Private. |
| Summary |
"Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Executions and executioners -- Southern States -- History.
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Public executions -- Southern States -- History.
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Capital punishment -- Southern States -- History.
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Discrimination in capital punishment -- Southern States -- History.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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Capital punishment. |
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Discrimination in capital punishment. |
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Executions and executioners. |
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Public executions. |
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Southern States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Trotti, Michael Ayers. End of public execution. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469670416 9781469670409 (DLC) 2022022447 (OCoLC)1322443495 |
| ISBN |
9781469670430 (electronic bk.) |
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1469670437 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469670423 (electronic bk.) |
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1469670429 (electronic bk.) |
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9781469670409 (hardcover) |
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1469670402 (hardcover) |
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9781469670416 (paperback) |
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1469670410 (paperback) |
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