The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction....................1
1. Collective Violence in the British Atlantic....................7
2. Vigilantes, Criminal Justice, and Antebellum Cultural Conflict....................12
3. Racial and Class Frontiers: Lynching and Social Identity in Antebellum America....................32
4. Lynchers versus Due Process: The Forging of Rough Justice....................54
5. The Civil War and Reconstruction and the Remaking of American Lynching....................67
Epilogue....................88
Appendix: Lists of Confirmed Lynchings....................93
Lynchings of African Americans in the South, 1824–1862....................93
Lynchings in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, 1840–1877....................99
Notes....................109
Index....................141