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At the Altar of Lynching

Burning Sam Hose in the American South

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvDonald G. Mathews,Chapel Hill) Mathews, Donald G. (University of North Carolina

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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, including women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-09-11
Mått154 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies on the American South
Antal sidor354
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316633984

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'With stunning research and uncompromising ethical vision, Donald G. Mathews shows why he is without peer in the history of religions. Every American should read this book, and learn how societies organize their racial superiority by religious means. Lynching is not a minor act conducted by marginal people. Lynching is an American institution used to reiterate the moral order of white supremacy.' Kathryn Lofton, Yale University, Connecticut