Contents

Stanly Has a Lynching: The Murder of Alexander Whitley: A Family Legacy Entangled in a Web of Fiction & Folklore.


 

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