HIST 1500Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lynching Of Sam Hose
8 Mar 2017
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If captured, he was to be publicly burned at the stake. Chicago african-american organization became concerned with the increase of deaths. They sent a white investigator to georgia, who found that hose killed cranford in an act of self-defense. Cranford threatened to shoot and kill hose initially, and ms. cranford stated that hose never even entered the house: between 1880-1930, over 3,000 african americans were documented as being killed in the. In virginia, charles lynch formed an association to rid county of loyalists: all suspected were whipped and hanged, this took place outside of the battleground. April 13, 1899: the lynching of sam hose. Lynching as ritual of white identity: whites trying to advance their class, racism fanned flames of inequality, blacks could be tortured without punishment. Lynching helped define identity as a common enemy: blacks. No masks to try to hide their identity. Images were also used in civil rights fights.
