![]() ![]() Most Southern States did not accept the outcome of the Civil War (1861-65) they resented defeat as a humiliation and their former slaves became a threat to their privileges. In certain parts of the country, black lives have never mattered much. Notwithstanding the opportunistic claims of some European Black organizations, George Floyd’s story is specifically an American drama-this book makes it clear. So racism in America has a specific story, which is part of a larger history of violence, as lynchings were never reserved to black people. These images are sickening-but the contemptuous smiles of the white folks in the mobs are actually unbearable. Photographs of the mutilated bodies were taken and used as. According to the Bible, a tree shall be known by its fruits what can we say, then, about the ‘poplar trees’ from the ‘gallant South’ that bore 4,000 ‘strange fruits’ (black bodies) between 18? They were lynched by white mobs during barbaric ceremonials that bordered on collective madness. Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America (Twin Palms Publishers) by James Allen is a dark book so dark you will never forget the first time you opened it nor the terrible 98 pictures it contains. ![]()
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