By Claude A. Clegg

ISBN-10: 0252035887

ISBN-13: 9780252035883

ISBN-10: 0252077822

ISBN-13: 9780252077821

In Troubled Ground, Claude A. Clegg III revisits a violent episode in his hometown's heritage that made nationwide headlines within the early 20th century yet disappeared from public attention over the a long time. relocating rapidly among reminiscence and background, among the private and the political, Clegg deals insights into southern historical past, mob violence, and the formation of yank race ideology whereas coming to phrases on a private point with the violence of the past.

 

Three black males have been killed in entrance of a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1906, following the ax homicide of a neighborhood white kinfolk for whom the boys had labored. one of many lynchers used to be prosecuted for his position within the execution, the 1st conviction of its sort in North Carolina and one of many earliest within the kingdom. but Clegg, a tutorial historian who grew up in Salisbury, had by no means heard of the case until eventually 2002 and will no longer locate an individual else conversant in the case.

 

In this ebook, Clegg mines newspaper money owed and executive documents and hyperlinks the sufferers of the 1906 case to a double-lynching in 1902, suggesting a posh background of lynching within the sector whereas revealing the selection of the town to rid its historical past of a shameful and stunning bankruptcy. the result's a multi-layered, deeply own exploration of lynching and lynching prosecutions within the United States.

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