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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

by Margaret A. Burnham

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780393867855