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Southern Horrors (Paperback)
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Southern Horrors (Paperback)
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Loot Price R105
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Southern Horrors (1892) is a pamphlet by Ida B. Wells. Published
several months after a white mob destroyed the office of her
prominent Memphis newspaper, the Free Speech, Southern Horrors is
an impassioned work of investigative journalism and political
criticism from a leading activist of the nineteenth century.
"Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare
lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not
careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will
have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be
very damaging to the moral reputation of their women." After
publishing these words in a May 1892 edition of the Memphis Free
Speech, Ida B. Wells left for a brief vacation in New York-no doubt
inspired by the numerous threats made against her life at the time.
In her absence, a mob of white men destroyed the newspaper's
office, leaving no trace of her extensive research on the last half
century of violence perpetrated against African Americans in the
name of white supremacy. Undeterred, Wells published Southern
Horrors just months later, combining personal reflections on the
incident with daring investigative reporting on the widespread
practice of lynching in the American South. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Ida B. Wells' Southern Horrors is a classic of African American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
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