The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white
employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous
religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in
the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to
a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in
the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of
social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the
extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished
historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the
murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the
evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how
mainline Protestants, including women, not only in many instances
came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious
meaning and justification.
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