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Title: On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, a Red Record Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells, Ida B. Wells-Barnett ISBN: 0-405-01849-5 Publisher: Ayer Co Pub Pub. Date: August, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.96

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Summary: Man's Inhumanity to Man
Comment: The detractors of this book are its old-fashioned language and tendency to be repetitive. These literary faux pas, however, do not detract from Wells-Barnett's depiction of the brutality and injustices suffered by black men accused (not convicted, but merely accused) of crimes in the nineteenth century with particular emphasis paid to the case of Robert Charles, a black man at the center of the 1900 New Orleans race riot. Wells-Barnett offers several accounts of black men tortured and murdered by mobs of angry, white citizens in details so graphic as to make more sensitive readers physically ill. What this book does brilliantly is capture the irrational violence caused by mass hysteria and the unthinkable cruelty human beings are capable of.