The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Collective Violence in the British Atlantic 7 2. Vigilantes, Criminal Justice, and Antebellum Cultural Conflict 12 3. Racial and Class Frontiers: Lynching and Social Identity in Antebellum America 32 4. Lynchers versus Due Process: The Forging of Rough Justice 54 5. The Civil War and Reconstruction and the Remaking of American Lynching 67 Epilogue 88 Appendix: Lists of Confirmed Lynchings 93   Lynchings of African Americans in the South, 1824–1862 93   Lynchings in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, 1840–1877 99 Notes 109 Index 141 Pfeifer_Roots text.indd 7 2/7/11 10:17:26 AM Pfeifer_Roots text.indd 8 2/7/11 10:17:26 AM ...