Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Bones
Chapter 2 - Four Stories
Chapter 3 - Lines Written on the Assassination of D. B. Tucker
Chapter 4 - A Ballad and a Preacher
Chapter 5 - Daniel Burton Tucker
Chapter 6 - The Sermon
Chapter 7 - “Just Desert”
Chapter 8 - The Man from Mobile
Chapter 9 - Alec Whitley: The Man and the Ballad
Chapter 10 - Lynching, Politics, and Religion: 1861–1892
Chapter 11 - Migrations
Chapter 12 - Arkansas, 1892
Chapter 13 - Stanly County, 1892
Chapter 14 - The Politics of Protection
Chapter 15 - Lynchers and Newspaper Reports
Chapter 16 - J. C. Burroughs Jr.
Chapter 17 - The Truth
Selected Bibliography
Appendix
Acknowledgements