The end of public execution :: race, religion, and punishment in the American South /

"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 lynchi...

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1. Verfasser: Trotti, Michael Ayers (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469670430
1469670437
9781469670423
1469670429

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