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The end of public execution : race, religion, and punishment in the American South / Michael Ayers Trotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trotti, Michael Ayers, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public executions--Southern States--History.
- Public executions.
- Discrimination in capital punishment--Southern States--History.
- Discrimination in capital punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Re-Centering
- A Camp Meeting at the Gallows
- Beyond Executions of African American Men for Murder
- Shooting the Sheep-Killing Dogs: Racism in Southern Punishment
- Counting the South's Legal Executions
- Uncivil Executions
- Make it a Secret Silent Monster: Executions in Private.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 14, 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Trotti, Michael Ayers The End of Public Execution
- ISBN:
- 9798890860071
- 9798890860088
- 9781469670423
- 1469670429
- 9781469670430
- 1469670437
- OCLC:
- 1352970043
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