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.
Table of Contents:
  • Before the burning : Southern mastery
  • Sex, danger, and religion : facing a "savage fury"
  • Kindling for the fire
  • Burning Sam Hose
  • After the fury : rape and history
  • After the fury : the blind and the sighted
  • At the altar : crucifixion.

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