At the altar of lynching : burning Sam Hose in the American South /

At the altar of lynching : burning Sam Hose in the American South /

"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 he...

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Author / Creator: Mathews, Donald G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects:
Hose, Sam, > 1875-1899.
Lynching > Georgia > Coweta County > History.
African Americans > Violence against > Georgia > Coweta County > History.
Racism.
History.
Altars.
Social aspects.
Evangelicalism > Social aspects.
Evangelicalism.
Lynching.
African Americans > Violence against.
Lynching > Southern States > Religious aspects > History.
Evangelicalism > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Altars > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Race relations.
Racism > Southern States > History.
Coweta County (Ga.) > Race relations > History.
Southern States > Religious life and customs.
Southern States.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
Georgia > Coweta County.

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