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The silent shore : the lynching of Matthew Williams and the politics of racism in the free state
Author
Title
The silent shore : the lynching of Matthew Williams and the politics of racism in the free state / Charles L. Chavis Jr.
ISBN
9781421442921
1421442922
9781421442938
1421442930
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This author tells the history of the lynching of a Black man on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Matthew Williams was lynched in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. To a greater extent than thousands of others, Williams's lynching influenced local, state, and national history, and yet its history remains largely unknown. This is a work of forensic reconstruction by the author"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.
Contents
"Matthew Williams: his family, his community, his humanity
"The blood lust of the Eastern Shore": the taking and the spectacle
Governor Albert C. Ritchie confronts Judge Lynch: the politics of anti-black racism in the free state and beyond
From pugilist to private eye: a prizefighter infiltrates the mob
Unmasking the mob and breaking the system of silence
Maryland's disgrace, the denial of justice
A blot on the tapestry of the free state
Confronting the legacy of anti-black violence in the age of fracture.
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Genre/Form
History.
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