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Carnival of blood : dueling, lynching, and murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920
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Title
Carnival of blood : dueling, lynching, and murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920 / John Hammond Moore.
ISBN
9781570036200 (cloth : alk. paper)
1570036209 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2006.
Physical Description
viii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-242) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The Cash-Shannon duel
Boggan Cash, outlaw
Background : the origins of lynching
Lynchings galore
The Charleston triangle : editor, governess, doctor
The assassination of N.G. Gonzales
Analyzing murder : facts, figures, fiction
One-on-one
Shoot-outs, western style
The weird, bizarre, and insane
Change in a changeless society.
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