His trenchant and concise analysis anchors the first book to consider the .

His trenchant and concise analysis anchors the first book to consider the crucial emergence of the practice of lynching slaves in antebellum America. Arguing that the origins of lynching cannot be restricted to any particular region, Pfeifer shows how the national and transatlantic context is essential for understanding how whites used mob violence to enforce the racial and class hierarchies across the United States. eISBN: 978-0-252-09309-8.

The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching

The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching. In this first national, cross-regional study of lynching and criminal justice, now in paperback, Michael J. Pfeifer investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century. Defining rough justice as the harsh, informal, and often communal punishment of perceived criminal behavior, Pfeifer examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions.

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Start by marking The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. His trenchant and concise analysis anchors the first book to consider the crucial emergence of the practice of lynching slaves in antebellum America.

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Scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers, The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching offers new insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era. Anglo-European folk and legal heritage.

Pfeifer examines the antecedents of American lynching in an early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage

Pfeifer examines the antecedents of American lynching in an early modern Anglo-European folk and legal heritage. Seamlessly melding source material with apt historical examples, The Roots of Rough Justice tackles the emergence not only of the rhetoric surrounding lynching, but of its practice and ideology.

Michael Pfeifer has produced a pre-quel to his well-received study, Rough Justice: Lynching .

Michael Pfeifer has produced a pre-quel to his well-received study, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Soci-ety, 1874-1947 (2004). Like the ear-lier book, Roots of Rough Justice has the merit of ranging widely through-out the United States, in contrast to most studies of lynching that focus on a particular state or region-often the South, and sometimes the West. With its focus on both these regions, as well as the Midwest, Pfeifer’s work looks at lynching as a national phe-nomenon  .

Michael J. Pfeifer, who contributed to that literature in 2004 with his book Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, has now published an important volume in which he asks where lynching culture came from, and when and how it became common in the United. Pfeifer, who contributed to that literature in 2004 with his book Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947, has now published an important volume in which he asks where lynching culture came from, and when and how it became common in the United States. It is a mistake, Pfeifer claims, to think of lynching as peculiarly, "exceptionally," southern. One must understand lynching in a national, even transnational, context.

Scrutinizing the vigilante movements.