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At the altar of lynching : burning Sam Hose in the American South

Mathews, Donald G., author

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\"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, especially women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Hose, Sam, 1875-1899. / Lynching Georgia Coweta County History. / African Americans Violence against Georgia Coweta County History. / Lynching Southern States Religious aspects History. / Evangelicalism Social aspects Southern States History. / Altars Social aspects Southern States History. / Racism Southern States History. / HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. / Coweta County (Ga.) Race relations History. / Southern States Religious life and customs. / Southern States Race relations History.
• ISBN: 9781107182974, 9781316633984

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV6465.G4 M37 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE