Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Reconstruction Violence and the Foundations of the Lynching Era: Union, S.C., 1871 2: Black Politics and Lynching after Reconstruction: Giles Good, York, S.C., 1887 3: Rape and Lynching in the New South: Manse Waldrop, Central, S.C., 1887 4: North Carolina's Turn Against Lynching: J. V. Johnson, Wadesboro, N.C., 1906 5: Lies and Lynching: Richard Puckett, Laurens, S.C., 1913 6: A Wartime Lynching: Rev. Watson T. Sims, Sharon, S.C., 1917 7: A Disgrace to North Carolina: Oliver Moore, Tarboro, N.C., 1930 Conclusion

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A comprehensive history of lynching and mob violence in North and South Carolina, focusing on seven specific case studies from the region.

About the Author

Bruce E. Baker is Lecturer in American History at Newcastle University, UK. He is author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South and After Slavery: Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South.

Reviews

Mention -Book News, February 2009

"By focusing on seven discreet incidents Baker makes the pattern of lynching in one part of the American South concrete and grounded in the social world that black and white southerners fashioned together.  In this light, This Mob Will Surely Take My Life becomes a good starting point for an assessment of the relationship of mob violence to racial politics in the postemancipation South and North Carolina."-The Journal of American History, Dennis B. Downey, Millersville University, Millersville, PA

This Mob Will Surely Take My Life is a major addition to the literature on collective violence in the post-Civil War South. Through these well-researched case studies, the author succeeds in tracing the rise and decline of lynch law in the Carolinas, proving in the process how its persistence and pervasiveness negatively affected both races and all levels of society for more than three-quarters of a century.
*The South Carolina Historical Magazine*