This Mob Will Surely Take My Life: Lynchings in the Carolinas, 1871-1947 by Bruce E. Baker

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

Bruce E. Baker

256 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging dark informative medium-paced

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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 Amer...

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