What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose by Edwin T. Arnold

What Virtue There Is in Fire: Cultural Memory and the Lynching of Sam Hose

Edwin T. Arnold

264 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, and raping his wife. The national ...

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