The roots of rough justice : origins of American lynching / Michael J. Pfeifer.

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Contents:
Vigilantes, criminal justice, and Antebellum cultural conflict -- Racial and class frontiers: lynching and social identity in Antebellum America -- Lynchers versus due process: the forging of rough justice -- The Civil War and reconstruction and the remaking of American lynching -- Epilogue.
Summary: In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study 'Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947', Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Collective violence in the British Atlantic -- Vigilantes, criminal justice, and Antebellum cultural conflict -- Racial and class frontiers: lynching and social identity in Antebellum America -- Lynchers versus due process: the forging of rough justice -- The Civil War and reconstruction and the remaking of American lynching -- Epilogue.

In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study 'Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947', Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history.

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