Donald G Mathews: 1 book
At the Altar of Lynching
Burning Sam Hose in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
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...
