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Man’s Heaven
The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks,
1894–1909
Kimberly Harper
Interracial
violence in the New South era
“An
invaluable work . . . supports and importantly expands on
recent studies of sundown towns and racial cleansing.”
—Journal of Southern History
“Well-written
and creatively researched . . . movingly documents ‘a
dark mark upon the land yet to be removed.’”
—Journal of American History
“Does
crucial work in bringing attention to a long-neglected but
important aspect of southern Ozarks and Missouri history.”
—Missouri Historical Review
“Essential
reading for anyone who lives in the southern Ozarks.”
—Arkansas Historical Quarterly
“A
cogent and illuminating contribution to the burgeoning scholarship
on lynching.”
—American Historical Review
“This
is required reading for understanding an important but oftentimes
unacknowledged phenomenon in U.S. history.”
—Choice
White
Man’s Heaven is the first book to investigate the
lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri
and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Kimberly Harper shows how an established tradition
of extralegal violence and the rapid political, economic,
and social change of the New South era combined to create
an environment that resulted in interracial violence. Even
though some whites tried to stop the violence and bring the
lynchers to justice, many African Americans fled the Ozarks,
leaving only a resilient few behind and forever changing the
racial composition of the region.
Kimberly
Harper lives in the Missouri Ozarks.
August
6 x 9, 302 pages • 32 photographs • index
$21.95 (s) paper • 978-1-55728-984-1
e-book available • 978-1-61075-456-9
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