Book
A lynching at Port Jervis : race and reckoning in the Gilded Age
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Physical Description
260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
"A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"--
Contents
- Introduction
- June 2, 1892
- City in progress
- A shadow cast over my sunshade
- "I am not the man"
- Southern methods outdone
- The vigorous pen of Ida B. Wells
- Inquest
- The author of my misfortune
- The blunders of virtue
- Epilogue.