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At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

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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 heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how mainline Protestants, including women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification.


  • | Author: Donald G. Mathews
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: Sep 11, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 354 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/History
  • | ISBN-10: 1316633985
  • | ISBN-13: 9781316633984
Author:
Donald G. Mathews
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Sep 11, 2017
Number of pages:
354 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/History
ISBN-10:
1316633985
ISBN-13:
9781316633984