Book contents
- At the Altar of Lynching
- Cambridge Studies on the American South
- At the Altar of Lynching
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Lynching and Altars
- 1 Before the Burning
- 2 Sex, Danger, and Religion
- 3 Kindling for the Fire
- 4 Burning Sam Hose
- 5 After the Fury
- 6 After the Fury
- 7 At the Altar
- Notes
- Index
4 - Burning Sam Hose
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2017
- At the Altar of Lynching
- Cambridge Studies on the American South
- At the Altar of Lynching
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Lynching and Altars
- 1 Before the Burning
- 2 Sex, Danger, and Religion
- 3 Kindling for the Fire
- 4 Burning Sam Hose
- 5 After the Fury
- 6 After the Fury
- 7 At the Altar
- Notes
- Index
Summary
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Christian Bible KJV, Matthew 5:16“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell… . But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”
Christian Bible KJV, James 3: 6, 8“Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”
Christian Bible KJV, Peter 3:13***
On the third Sunday after Easter in 1899 about forty miles southwest of Atlanta in Newnan, Georgia, a white crowd burned to death a fugitive black laborer known as Sam Hose. This atrocity blended anger, hatred, arrogance, festivity, brutality and satisfaction into a mood just beyond comprehension. “Glory!” shouted an excited man enraptured by the intensity of the moment, “Glory be to God!!”
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- At the Altar of LynchingBurning Sam Hose in the American South, pp. 139 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017