This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947

Description: This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 Product Overview This book traces the history of mob violence in North and South Carolina, probing the origins of a phenomenon that has left an open wound in the American psyche. Lynching marked the violent outer boundaries of race and class relations in the American South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Everyday interactions could easily escalate into mob violence and did so thousands of times. Bruce E. Baker examines this important aspect of American history by studying seven lynchings in North and South Carolina and looking behind the superficial accounts and explanations provided at the time to explain the deeper causes and wider contexts of these events. Many studies of lynching begin only after Reconstruction had ended and African- Americans found themselves with little political power. This Mob Will Surely Take My Life, however, provides the most thorough study yet written of the Ku Klux Klan's most violent episode - the killing of thirteen black militia members in Union, South Carolina, in 1871- to argue that this act of mob violence set the stage in important ways for the entire lynching era. Enmities born in Reconstruction lingered afterwards and lay behind an 1887 lynching in York County, South Carolina. As lynching became an unsurprising part of life in the South, African-Americans even found that they could use it themselves, in one case to punish a child's killer and in another to settle a church's factional squabbles. The book ends with a discussion of the varied forces that opposed lynching and how, by the 1930s, they had begun to be effective. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum; 0 edition (November 15, 2008) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847252389 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 88 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches Best Sellers Rank: #3,212,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #9,579 in Murder & Mayhem True Accounts #65,657 in U.S. State & Local History #9,579 in Murder & Mayhem True Accounts #65,657 in U.S. State & Local History Stock Photos Please Note: All of our book listings use stock photos unless otherwise stated. Please read our descriptions for accurate conditions and editions, don't use the photos! Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.

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ISBN: 1847252389

ISBN10: 1847252389

ISBN13: 9781847252388

EAN: 9781847252388

MPN: does not apply

Brand: Continuum

GTIN: 09781847252388

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Publication Name: This Mob Will Surely Take My Life : Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional

Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2008

Item Weight: 18.3 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Bruce E. Baker

Subject Area: Social Science, History

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover