The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching

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Index Adams County, Ohio: lynching in, 54–55 American Revolution: and the origins of American lynching, 10–11 Barbour County, Alabama: lynching in, 42–43 Beck, E. M., 140n98 Booth, Sherman, 62–63, 130n23 British Atlantic: and the origins of American lynching, 4, 7–11, 14, 28, 111n17 Brownsville, Texas: lynching in, 53 Caddo Parish, Louisiana: lynching in, 87 Calaveras County, California: lynching in, 49, 52 capital punishment: in the early modern British Atlantic, 7; as a legacy of lynching, 89; and lynching in California, 65–66; and lynching in Iowa, 64; and lynching in Minnesota, 63; and the lynching of slaves, 41–44, 121–22n9; and lynching in Wisconsin , 60–64; in New Mexico, 127; the reform of, 11, 13–14, 41–42, 59–60 Carrigan, William, 110n7 charivari, 8 Charleston, Illinois: lynching in, 57 Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: lynching in, 48 Claiborne Parish, Louisiana: lynching in, 86 class: and lynching, 1, 13, 16–17, 19–23, 25, 30–31, 33, 46, 51 Clay County, Missouri: lynching in, 40 Colfax Massacre, 86 Columbia, Missouri: lynching in, 43 Columbus, Georgia: lynching in, 44 constitutionalism: and the debate over lynching, 12, 15, 31, 58–59, 78–79; and the origins of American lynching, 11 Denton, Maryland: lynching in, 44 due process: values of, 2, 5, 14–15, 22–26, 62–63, 66 Dyer, Thomas G., 33 East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana: lynching in, 87 Edinburgh, Scotland: crowd execution in, 8–9 ethnicity: and lynching, 5, 68–79, 111n16, 133n7, 133n8 Fischer, David Hackett, 115n15 Franklin Parish, Louisiana: lynching in, 83 gender: lynching of women, 40, 128n94 Genovese, Eugene, 33, 35, 120n2, 125n62 Gilje, Paul, 116n17 Grimsted, David, 116n17, 120n2, 122n12 homicide: and the lynching of slaves, 38–40; and the lynching of whites, 57 Hopkins County, Texas: lynching in, 41 Hot Springs County, Arkansas: lynching in, 39 Pfeifer_Roots text.indd 141 2/7/11 10:17:38 AM 142 Index Iberia Parish, Louisiana: lynching in, 86 Ingham County, Michigan: lynching in, 69, 79–81, 132–33n4 Irish Catholics: and American lynching, 5, 68–79, 133n7, 133n8 Janesville, Wisconsin: lynching in, 60–62 Jefferson County, Iowa: lynching in, 58 legal change and reform, 4–5, 11, 13–14; and antebellum lynching, 54–66; debate over on the cotton frontier, 18; debate over on the late midwestern frontier, 22–29, 118n58; and the lynching of slaves, 43–45 Lexington, Kentucky: lynching in, 58 Lincoln, Abraham: on mob violence, 12–13, 15, 55, 59, 113–14n1 Lincoln County, Missouri: lynching in, 40 London, England: crowd execution in, 8 Los Angeles, California: lynching in, 53 Louisville, Kentucky: lynching in, 35 Lovejoy, Elijah P.: mob assassination of, 55, 113–14n1 lynching: in Alabama, 33, 40, 43–44; in antebellum era, 2–4, 21, 32–53; in Arkansas, 33, 43; of blacks in the North, 54–55, 67–81, 89, 137n67; in California, 1, 6, 47, 49–53, 64– 66; in the California Gold Rush, 49, 51–52, 54, 64–66, 128n94; in the Civil War and Reconstruction, 6, 67–87; of free blacks, 35, 44, 122n11; in Georgia, 33, 41, 44; in Haiti, 91; of Hispanics, 1, 6, 46–47, 50–53, 89,110n7, 128n94; historiography of, 3; in Illinois, 81, 137n67; in Indiana, 81, 137n67; in Iowa, 1, 6, 21–29, 57; in Kentucky, 35, 55, 58; in Latin America, 89–90; in Louisiana, 6, 81–87; lower midwestern, 54–59, 81, 137n67; in Maryland, 44; in Michigan, 6, 69–70, 79–81, 132–33n4; in Minnesota, 6, 63; in Mississippi, 1, 6; in Missouri, 12, 33, 40–41, 43–45, 55, 57, 121n9; of Native Americans, 6, 9–10, 46–50, 53; in New Mexico, 6, 46, 50, 125n67; in New York, 6, 68, 70, 76–78, 81; in North Carolina, 41; northern, 6, 67–81, 89; in Ohio, 54–55, 81, 137n67; in Oregon, 48; in postbellum era, 3, 87–89; of slaves, 3, 6, 32–46, 122n10, 122n11; southern, 6, 32–46, 81–88; in subSaharan Africa, 90–91; in Tennessee, 44; in Texas, 21, 33, 39–40, 44, 53, 121n9; in transnational context, 3, 4, 6, 89–91; upper midwestern, 59–64; upper southern, 54–59; in Washington, 6, 48–49; western, 29–32; 46–53, 64–66, 89, 126n69; of whites, 1, 21–31, 57; in Wisconsin, 6, 48, 60–64, 68, 70, 71–76, 81, 132–33n4; in Wyoming, 6, 29–31, 119n80 Madison County, Mississippi: vigilantes in, 20–21 Marblehead, Massachusetts: crowd execution in, 9 McDougal, Gov. John: response to...