Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (American Ways Series)

by Manfred Berg (Author)

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  Paperback
  2015

  $31.44

  Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment performed by ordinary people. He confronts racially fragmented historical memory and legacies of popular justice to help the reader make better sense of lynching as part of American history.