The silent shore : the lynching of Matthew Williams and the politics of racism in the free state /
This author tells the history of the lynching of a Black man on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Matthew Williams was lynched in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. To a greater extent than thousands of others, Williams's lynching influenced local, state and national history and yet its history remains...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2021].
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| Summary: | This author tells the history of the lynching of a Black man on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Matthew Williams was lynched in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. To a greater extent than thousands of others, Williams's lynching influenced local, state and national history and yet its history remains largely unknown. This is a work of forensic reconstruction by the author. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421442921 1421442922 9781421442938 1421442930 |