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.

A searing indictment.