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9780252036132
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In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, Michael J. Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history. Scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers, offers new insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era. _x000B_Pfeifer examines the antecedents of American lynching in early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage. His trenchant and concise analysis anchors the first book to consider the crucial emergence of the practice of lynching slaves in antebellum America. Arguing that the origins of lynching cannot be restricted to any particular region, Pfeifer shows how the national and transatlantic context is essential for understanding how whites used mob violence to enforce the racial and class hierarchies across the U.S.
Content:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Collective Violence in the British Atlantic -- 2. Vigilantes, Criminal Justice, and Antebellum Cultural Conflict -- 3. Racial and Class Frontiers: Lyncing and Social Identity in Antebellum America -- 4. Lynchers versus Due Process: The Forging of Rough Justice -- 5. The Civil War and Reconstruction and the Remaking of American Lynching -- Epilogue -- Appendix: List of Confirmed Lynchings -- Lynching of African Americans in the South, 1824-1862 -- Lynching in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, 1840-1877 -- Notes -- Index.
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""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Collective Violence in the British Atlantic""; ""2. Vigilantes, Criminal Justice, and Antebellum Cultural Conflict""; ""3. Racial and Class Frontiers: Lyncing and Social Identity in Antebellum America""; ""4. Lynchers versus Due Process: The Forging of Rough Justice""; ""5. The Civil War and Reconstruction and the Remaking of American Lynching""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix: List of Confirmed Lynchings""; ""Lynching of African Americans in the South, 1824-1862""
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""Lynching in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, 1840-1877""""Notes""; ""Index""
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ISBN 9780252093098
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252036132
Additional Edition:
Print version Roots of Rough Justice : Origins of American Lynching
Language:
English
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