| Contents |
Introduction -- War fantasies -- Lynch Sunday -- The Palmetto massacre -- A carnival of blood and lust -- The wild ride -- A holocaust of human flesh -- Beware, all darkies! -- Lynch law in Georgia -- Sex, fingers, toes -- Across the road from the barbecue house -- Coda. |
| Abstract |
"The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, and raping his wife. The national media closely followed the manhunt and Hose's capture. An armed mob intercepted Hose's Atlanta-bound train and took the prisoner back to Newnan. There, in front of a large gathering on a Sunday afternoon, Hose was mutilated and set on fire. His body was dismembered and pieces of it were kept by souvenir hunters ... Arnold analyzes newspapers, letters, and speeches to understand reactions to this brutal incident, without trying to resolve the still-disputed facts of the crime."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-234) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008050471 |
| ISBN | 9780820328911 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 082032891X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
