Festival of Violence An Analysis of the Lynching of African-Americans in the American South, 1882-1930

This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Among their surprising findings: lynching responded to fluctuations in the price of cotton, decreasing in frequency when prices rose and increasing when they fell.Tolnay, Stewart E. is the author of 'Festival of Violence An Analysis of the Lynching of African-Americans in the American South, 1882-1930' with ISBN 9780252064135 and ISBN 0252064135.