At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews

At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South

Cambridge Studies on the American South

Donald G. Mathews

354 pages first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 res...

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