At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South. By Donald G. Mathews. Cambridge Studies on the American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. ix + 347 pp. $99.97 cloth; $29.99 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640718001373
Abstract: In my 2004 book Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1847–1947, I considered the role of religion in shaping lynching cultures in the southern, western, and midwestern regions of the United States. The evidence, I… read more here.
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