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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library) Paperback – January 7, 2003

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In this history of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South—the most comprehensive of its kind—the author has written what amounts to a Black Book of American race relations. Dray has scoured the archives and emerged with a plethora of horror stories, but he has also made excellent use of recent work on the psychology and sociology of lynchings and has incorporated everything into a tight, cleanly written narrative. He demonstrates that lynching was not a hysterical spasm of violence committed by a few angry troublemakers but a social institution—a ritualized spectacle that was central to white Southerners’ understanding of themselves and their quest to uphold a way of life they saw as threatened. But if lynching was instrumental in the preservation of racial oppression it also proved a catalyst for resistance: the anti-lynching crusades of Ida B. Wells and the N.A.A.C.P. gave birth to the modern civil-rights movement.
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“A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times

“In this history of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South—the most comprehensive of its kind—the author has written what amounts to a Black Book of American race relations.”—The New Yorker

“A powerfully written, admirably perceptive synthesis of the vast literature on lynching. It is the most comprehensive social history of this shameful subject in almost seventy years and should be recognized as a major addition to the bibliography of American race relations.”—David Levering Lewis

“An important and courageous book, well written, meticulously researched, and carefully argued.”—The Boston Globe

“You don’t really know what lynching was until you read Dray’s ghastly accounts of public butchery and official complicity.”—Time

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