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A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age /

A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dray, Philip (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lynching > New York (State) > Port Jervis > History > 19th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > Port Jervis > History > 19th century.
Racism > New York (State) > History > 19th century.
Port Jervis (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • June 2, 1892
  • City in Progress
  • A Shadow Cast over My Sunshade
  • "I Am Not the Man"
  • Southern Methods Outdone
  • The Vigorous Pen of Ida B. Wells
  • Inquest
  • The Author of My Misfortune
  • The Blunders of Virtue
  • Epilogue.