The Lynching of Peter Wheeler by Debra Komar

The Lynching of Peter Wheeler

Debra Komar

352 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime dark mysterious medium-paced
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At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler -- a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl -- was strung up under a porch with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it w...

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