The end of public execution : race, religion, and punishment in the American South / Michael Ayers Trotti.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Trotti, Michael Ayers, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Executions and executioners--Southern States--History.
• Public executions--Southern States--History.
• Capital punishment--Southern States--History.
• Discrimination in capital punishment--Southern States--History.
• Capital punishment.
• Discrimination in capital punishment.
• Executions and executioners.
• Public executions.
• Southern States.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xi, 251 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Re-centering
• ch. One A Camp Meeting at the Gallows
• ch. Two Beyond Executions of African American Men for Murder
• ch. Three Shooting the Sheep-Killing Dogs
• Racism in Southern Punishment
• ch. Four Counting the South's Legal Executions
• ch. Five Uncivil Executions
• ch. Six Make It a Secret Silent Monster
• Executions in Private.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

• 9781469670409
• 1469670402
• 9781469670416
• 1469670410

OCLC:

1322443495