At the Altar of Lynching

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"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, especially women, not only in many instances came to support or accept lynching, but gave the act religious meaning and justification"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Lynching,  African americans, crimes against,  Southern states, history,  History,  African Americans,  Violence against,  Race relations,  Evangelicalism,  Southern States,  Altars,  Religious life and customs,  Racism,  Hose, sam , 1875-1899,  Lynching--history,  Lynching--georgia--coweta county--history,  African americans--violence against--history,  African americans--violence against--georgia--coweta county--history,  Lynching--religious aspects--history,  Lynching--southern states--religious aspects--history,  Evangelicalism--social aspects--history,  Evangelicalism--social aspects--southern states--history,  Altars--social aspects--history,  Altars--social aspects--southern states--history,  Racism--history,  Racism--southern states--history,  History / united states / 19th century,  Race relations--history,  Hv6465.g4 m37 2018,  364.1/34,  His036040,  Religious aspects,  Social aspects