Lynched in Nansemond
Subtitle: not guilty, beaten, hanged, and shot yet lives : Isaac Jenkins' simple narrative, charged with selling whiskey unlawfully : the only case on record
Series: Harvard College Library pamphlet digitization program
Publisher: Planet Print
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Richmond, Va
Language: eng
Subjects: Lynching
Notes: "Editor Mitchell visits the jail and accompanies the prisoner back to Nansemond County--a graphic description."

In July 1893, John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet, visited Isaac Jenkins in the Norfolk County jail. Mitchell then accompanied Jenkins as he was transferred from the Norfolk jail to the Suffolk County jail, and used his newspaper to rally support for Jenkins, who was ultimately released in May, 1894.

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