Format:
Online-Ressource (250 p)
ISBN:
9780252035883
Content:
Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's history that made national headlines in the early twentieth century but disappeared from public consciousness over the decades. Moving swiftly between memory and history, between the personal and the political, Clegg offers insights into southern history, mob violence, and the formation of American race ideology while coming to terms on a personal level with the violence of the past._x000B_Three black men were killed in front of a crowd of thousands in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1906, following the ax murder of a local white family for whom the men had worked. One of the lynchers was prosecuted for his role. _x000B_Yet Clegg, an academic historian who grew up in Salisbury, had never heard of the case until 2002 and could not find anyone else familiar with the case. He suggests a long and complex history of lynching in the area while revealing the determination of the city to rid its history of a shameful and shocking chapter.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Searching for a Troubled Past -- 1. Bygones -- 2. Old Demons of the New South -- 3. The Reaping -- 4. Presumed Guilt -- 5. A Blot Upon the State -- 6. A Reckoning -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cover 4.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: Searching for a Troubled Past""; ""1. Bygones""; ""2. Old Demons of the New South""; ""3. The Reaping""; ""4. Presumed Guilt""; ""5. A Blot Upon the State""; ""6. A Reckoning""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back cover""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252090097
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252035883
Additional Edition:
Print version Troubled Ground : A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South
Language:
English
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