Description
Book SynopsisA deeply personal exploration of a city's shameful and forgotten past
Trade Review"A fine book, deeply researched and elegantly written, that tells us some very important things about the relationship between lynching and the modernizing state in the early twentieth century."--
Florida Historical Quarterly"This compelling microhistory of several North Carolina lynchings adeptly locates the significance of these events in the matrix of local race relations. Deeply researched and sensitive to nuance and complexity,
Troubled Ground viscerally and appealingly reconstructs historical events pivotal to an understanding of the history of lynching and criminal justice."--Michael J. Pfeifer, author of
Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1974"Beautifully written."--
The Journal of American History"In this crisp and trenchant account of a North Carolina lynching that was at once tragically commonplace and surprisingly exceptional, Claude A. Clegg III deftly combines local history of the highest caliber with an impressive command of the latest scholarship on lynching and an eye for the broadest implications of his story."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of
The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory"Clegg provides a laudably clear and accessible narrative. Clegg successfully grounds his analysis in the local context, impressively reconstructing the relationships and the conflicts that sparked the 1906 lynchings. In sum,
Troubled Ground is an excellent book and deserves a wide audience."--
Louisiana History
