TY - BOOK AU - Waldrep,Christopher TI - Lynching in America : a history in documents SN - 9780814793992 AV - HV6457 .L95 2005 U1 - 364.134 23 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Lynching KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : explanations -- The first lynchers -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery -- How the West was won? -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The gilded age : shall the wheel of race agitation be stopped? -- State sovereignty and mob law -- Western lynching in an industrializing age -- The limits of progressive reform -- Federal law against mob law -- The new deal -- High-tech lynchings ER -