At the Altar of Lynching Earl F. Palmer Harris can feel that underneath

Harris can feel that underneath Avionne's cool facade there is more to her than meets the eye

Embrace your broken dream as a chance for a new beginning and see how a "Resurrection Year" can restore your soul

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especially the design and execution of illustration

Physical Info: 278 pages

At the Altar of Lynching Earl F. Palmer Harris can feel that underneathThe story of a black day laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of social crisis could justify illegal white violence even