| At the Altar of Lynching Contributor(s): Mathews, Donald G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107182972 ISBN-13: 9781107182974 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $111.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century - History | African American |
| Dewey: 364.134 |
| LCCN: 2017019541 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.54" W x 9.43" (1.36 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the extreme act of lynching. In At the Altar of Lynching, distinguished historian Donald G. Mathews offers a new interpretation of the murder of Sam Hose, which places the religious culture of the evangelical South at its center. He carefully considers how mainline Protestants, including women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mathews, Donald G.: - Donald G. Mathews has taught at Duke and Princeton Universities, as well as at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has studied and written about religion and the South for over fifty years, publishing three books and over thirty articles. He is the author of Religion in the Old South (1979) and co-author of Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA (1993). |