Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in All Its Phases

In the post-civil war American south, the despicable act of lynching was commonplace and considered to be a form of vigilantism that was used to murder African Americans for alleged “crimes” ranging from acting suspiciously to “insulting whites”. In Wells'' 1892 book “Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in All its Phases”, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett describes many horrific instances when the law turned a bli...