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LEADER: 01901cam a22003134a 4500
001 2005011353
003 DLC
005 20060808103136.0
008 050422s2006 njua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2005011353
020 $a9780813537283 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780813537290 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-tn$an-us-fl
050 00 $aHV6465.T2$bV36 2006
082 00 $a364.66/0975$222
100 1 $aVandiver, Margaret.
245 10 $aLethal punishment :$blynchings and legal executions in the South /$cMargaret Vandiver.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$cc2006.
300 $axii, 284 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( p. 203-273) and index.
505 0 $aLegal and extralegal executions in the American South -- Lethal punishment in Tennessee and Florida -- Eleven lynchings for every execution: lethal punishment in northwest Tennessee -- "There can be nothing but death": lethal punishment for rape in Shelby County, Tennessee -- "The first time a charge like this has ever been tried in the courts": the end of lynching in Marion County, Florida -- The mob and the law: mock trials by mobs and sham legal trials -- "The first duty of a government": lynching and the fear of anarchy -- When the mob ruled: the lynching of Ell Persons -- Prevented lynchings: white intervention and black resistance -- "No reason why we should favor lynching or hanging": efforts to end legal and extralegal executions in Tennessee.
650 0 $aLynching$zTennessee$xHistory.
650 0 $aExecutions and executioners$zTennessee$xHistory.
650 0 $aLynching$zFlorida$zOcala$xHistory.
650 0 $aExecutions and executioners$zFlorida$zOcala$xHistory.
651 0 $aSouthern States
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011353.html