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86/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Margaret A. Burnham
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
September 27, 2022
An investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy.
What The Reviewers Say
A database of what Burnham calls a 'forgotten history of racially motivated homicides' in the American South during the Jim Crow era.
The book is undermined by the author’s ideology and limited engagement with other similar works.
Burnham demonstrates how Black Americans challenged racial violence and the legal system that supported it, including efforts in Northern states to thwart rendition of fugitives back to the South.
A searing study.
