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Author:

Branan, Karen.

Title:

The family tree : a lynching in Georgia, a legacy of secrets, and my search for the truth / Karen Branan.

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Atria Books,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Lynching--Hamilton--Hamilton--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--Hamilton--Hamilton--History--20th century.
Branan, Karen--Family.
Family secrets--Hamilton.--Hamilton.
Sheriffs--Hamilton--Hamilton--Biography.
Racism--Hamilton--Hamilton--History--20th century.
Plantation life--History--Hamilton--Hamilton--History--20th century.
Miscegenation--Hamilton--Hamilton--History--20th century.
Hamilton (Ga.)--History--History--20th century.
Hamilton (Ga.)--Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
HISTORY / United States / General.
HISTORY / General.

Notes:

"Atria non fiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- My Sweet Village -- Plantation Politics -- The Unveiling -- New Sheriff in Town -- Norman's Murder -- Though Silent He Speaks -- Negro Desperadoes -- Nobody's Negroes -- Vendettas -- Brazen Iniquity -- The Heroines -- Race Wars -- Clutch of Circumstance -- Special Court -- The Die is Cast -- The Lynching -- "So Quietly Was the Work Done" -- Parties Unknown -- "..died with their boots on" -- Roaring Twenties -- The Ladies' Ultimatum -- Dad Doug -- Guilt and Innocence -- Enslaved by History.

ISBN:

1476717184 : HRD
9781476717180 : HRD

LCCN:

2015043375

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