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The Red Record
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9783985310036
Umbreit-Nr.: 1755592
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 87 S., 1.37 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.01.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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- Zusatztext
- In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante justice was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous violence. In 1892 alone, more than two hundred African Americans were lynched, with alleged offences ranging from attempted stock poisoning to insulting whites. The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves. Alongside the tally, author Ida B. Wells describes actual occurrences of lynching, and enumerates the standard rationalisations for these extrajudicial killings, her original intent for the pamphlet to shame and shock the apathetic publicand spark change. (Goodreads)
- Kurztext
- In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante &quote;justice&quote; was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous violence. In 1892 alone, more than two hundred African Americans were lynched, with alleged offences ranging from &quote;attempted stock poisoning&quote; to &quote;insulting whites.&quote; The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves. Alongside the tally, author Ida B. Wells describes actual occurrences of lynching, and enumerates the standard rationalisations for these extrajudicial killings, her original intent for the pamphlet to shame and shock the apathetic public-and spark change. (Goodreads)