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Lynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy.

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 2/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807871973, 978-0807871973
      ISBN10: 0807871974

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      Book Synopsis
      Lynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy.

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