At the Altar of Lynching : Burning Sam Hose in the American South
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies on the American South
ISBN-10
1316633985
ISBN-13
9781316633984
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 11th, 2017
Print length
354 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.80 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Renowned historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the lynching of Sam Hose, framing it as a religious and moral story within the culture of deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South. This book will appeal to those studying southern history, African American history, and Southern religion.
"The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of social crisis could justify illegal white violence--even to the extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how mainline Protestants, especially women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification"--Provided by publisher.
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