Cover Image

"What virtue there is in fire" cultural memory and the lynching of Sam Hose /

Main Author: Arnold, Edwin T.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2009]
Physical Description: 242 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Hose, Sam, -- 1875-1899.
Hose, Sam, -- 1875-1899 -- Influence.
Lynching -- Georgia -- Coweta County -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- History -- Georgia -- Coweta County.
Murder -- Georgia -- Coweta County -- History -- 19th century.
Racism -- Georgia -- Coweta County -- History.
Coweta County (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History.
Table of 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.

In Prospector

Similar Items