What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose

by Edwin T. Arnold

Book Overview

The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820340642
• ISBN13: 9780820340647
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"