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  • 10 - Words and Ropes: The Postwar Battles over Racial Order

  • from Part III - Modern Traditions
  • Scott Gac, Trinity College, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Born in Blood
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 242-265

  • Summary

    Chapter 10 engages the global and historical attributes of lynching and situates the practice within a North American environment of anti-Black terror. This chapter links national lawmakers who advocated for White supremacy to the increase and severity of violence against Black individuals (and others), surveying how violence and the construction of race served to create and uphold relationships of power and economy in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. It centers on Congressional discussions in the Reconstruction era and the brutal death of Lee Walker, a Black man, at the hands of a White mob in 1893. The creation of a new racial order, one that harkened to earlier forms of racial intimidation, was intricately connected to work. Violence ensured that the linkages between low-status labor, poverty, and skin color remained unbroken.