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

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

Title remainder

burning Sam Hose in the American South

Statement of responsibility

Donald G. Mathews

Creator

• Mathews, Donald G

Subject

• Southern States -- Race relations | History
• Southern States -- Religious life and customs
• African Americans -- Violence against | Georgia -- Coweta County -- History
• Lynching -- Southern States -- Religious aspects | History
• Hose, Sam, 1875-1899
• Evangelicalism -- Social aspects | Southern States | History
• Altars -- Social aspects | Southern States | History
• Coweta County (Ga.) -- Race relations | History
• Racism -- Southern States -- History
• Lynching -- Georgia | Coweta County -- History

Language

eng

Summary

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, including women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification.--

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• Cambridge studies on the American South

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UkCbUP

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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• Cambridge studies on the American South
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks