Title
Doubtless Guilty: Lynching and Slaves in Antebellum Arkansas
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Department
History & Political Science
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
BOOK ABSTRACT:
Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century and covering stories of the perpetrators, victims, and those who fought against vigilante violence.
Among the topics discussed are the lynching of slaves, the Arkansas Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, the 1927 lynching of John Carter in Little Rock, and the state’s long opposition to a federal anti-lynching law.
Throughout, the work reveals how the phenomenon of lynching—as the means by which a system of white supremacy reified itself, with its perpetrators rarely punished and its defenders never condemned—served to construct authority in Arkansas. Bullets and Fire will add depth to the growing body of literature on American lynching and integrate a deeper understanding of this violence into Arkansas history.
First Page
17
Last Page
34
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
City
Fayetteville
ISBN
9781682260449 (Paper); 9781610756228 (e-book)
Recommended Citation
Jones, Kelly Houston. "Doubtless Guilty: Lynching and Slaves in Antebellum Arkansas" in Bullets and Fire: Lynching and Authority in Arkansas from Slavery through the 1930s, ed. by Guy Lancaster, 17-34. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2017.