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On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish,
Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with
larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of
times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely more about any of these
other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new
sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and
women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart
Tolnay's revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore
the identities of--and lend dignity to--hundreds of lynching
victims about whom we have known little more than their names and
alleged offenses. Comparing victims' characteristics to those of
African American men who were not lynched, Bailey and Tolnay
identify the factors that made them more vulnerable to being
targeted by mobs, including how old they were; what work they did;
their marital status, place of birth, and literacy; and whether
they lived in the margins of their communities or possessed higher
social status. Assessing these factors in the context of current
scholarship on mob violence and reports on the little-studied women
and white men who were murdered in similar circumstances, this
monumental work brings unprecedented clarity to our understanding
of lynching and its victims.
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