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2 - The Letter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

Elijah Gaddis
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Alabama
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This chapter examines another form of conventional historical source through a material culture lens by considering a letter written in 1898 by a former Fusionist supporter and the father of Emma Hartsell. Hartsell was the alleged cause of Kizer and Johnson's lynching, and her father's letter defended the lynching as a necessary corrective to his own former political beliefs. This chapter puts the letter in two broader contexts: the white supremacist political campaign of 1898, and the built environment of media in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century South. In particular, the chapter juxtaposes various landscape texts, such as notes left on lynched bodies and commerical advertising on buildings, to conceptualize broader printed and built cultures of white supremacy.

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Gruesome Looking Objects
A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
, pp. 46 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Letter
  • Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University, Alabama
  • Book: Gruesome Looking Objects
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082266.004
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  • The Letter
  • Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University, Alabama
  • Book: Gruesome Looking Objects
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082266.004
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  • The Letter
  • Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University, Alabama
  • Book: Gruesome Looking Objects
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082266.004
Available formats
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