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

by Bruce E. Baker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847252389
• ISBN13: 9781847252388
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"