Under Sentence of Death
Subtitle: Lynching in the South
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780807823262
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Crime & criminology; Racism & racial discrimination; Social history; Violence in society; United States - 19th Century; Lynching; Murder; Race And Ethnic Relations; United States - General; History - General History; Southern States; History: American; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 20th Century; African Americans; Crimes against; History; Racism
First sentence: Sociologists study southern lynching in ways that are strikingly different from the approaches taken by most historians.