Lineaments of Wrath: Race, Violent Crime, and American Culture Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Violence Begets Violence	1
Pt. 1	Slavery
2	The Lineaments of Wrath	17
3	Scarred in the Flame of Withering Injustice	35
Pt. II	Reconstruction
4	No More Auction Block	47
5	The Paradox of Emancipation	61
6	The Failure of Reform	77
7	KKK: The Assault on Black Families	93
Pt. III	The Restoration
8	Convict Labor	109
9	A Lawless Loyalty to Color	127
10	The Scourge of Lynching	139
11	Segregation, Disfranchisement, and Legal	159
12	The Richest Soil, the Poorest People	177
Pt. IV	The Urban Transformation
13	The Promised Land	193
14	Black-on-Black Homicide, 1900-1939	209
15	Dark Ghettos	227
16	Killing Fumes	239
Pt. V	Consequences
17	Vanishing Families	249
18	Urban Tribal Societies	265
19	Conclusions	283
	Selected Bibliography	299
	Index	335