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03626aam a2200505 i 4500 001 A69270BAF31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240405010125 008 220512s2022 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022022447 020 $a 1469670410 020 $a 9781469670416 020 $a 1469670402 020 $a 9781469670409 035 $a (OCoLC)1322443495 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ABJ $d YDX $d CDX $d YDX $d HAM $d HF9 $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a HV8699.U6 $b A448 2022 082 00 $a 364.660975 $2 23/eng/20220601 100 1 $a Trotti, Michael Ayers, $e author. 245 14 $a The end of public execution : $b race, religion, and punishment in the American South / $c Michael Ayers Trotti. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xi, 251 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index. 505 00 $t Make it a Secret Silent Monster: Executions in Private. $t A Camp Meeting at the Gallows -- $t Beyond Executions of African American Men for Murder -- $t Shooting the Sheep-Killing Dogs: Racism in Southern Punishment -- $t Counting the South's Legal Executions -- $t Uncivil Executions -- $t Make it a Secret Silent Monster: Executions in Private. 520 $a Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion. Intended to shame and intimidate, public executions after the Civil War had quite a different effect on southern Black communities. Crowds typically consisting of as many Black people as white behaved like congregations before a macabre pulpit, led in prayer and song by a Black minister on the scaffold. Black criminals often proclaimed their innocence and almost always their salvation. This turned the proceedings into public, mixed-race, and mixed-gender celebrations of Black religious authority and devotion. In response, southern states rewrote their laws to eliminate these crowds and this Black authority, ultimately turning to electrocutions in the bowels of state penitentiaries. As a wave of lynchings crested around the turn of the twentieth century, states transformed the ways that the South's white-dominated governments controlled legal capital punishment, making executions into private affairs witnessed only by white people. -- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Executions and executioners $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Public executions $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z Southern States $x History. 650 0 $a Discrimination in capital punishment $z Southern States $x History. 650 6 $a ExeÌcutions publiques $z EÌtats-Unis (Sud) $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Peine de mort $z EÌtats-Unis (Sud) $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Discrimination dans l'application de la peine de mort $z EÌtats-Unis (Sud) $x Histoire. 650 7 $a Capital punishment $2 fast 650 7 $a Discrimination in capital punishment $2 fast 650 7 $a Executions and executioners $2 fast 650 7 $a Public executions $2 fast 651 7 $a Southern States $2 fast 655 7 $a History $2 fast 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781469670430 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024539.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A69270BAF31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search