Carnival of Blood - Dueling, Lynching, And Murder in South Carolina, 1880-1920

Informationen zum Autor John Hammond Moore has held teaching positions at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina; Georgia State University in Atlanta; and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His numerous publications include Columbia and Richland County: A South Carolina Community, 1740-1990 and A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861. Klappentext This compendium of infamous crimes and spectacular violence presents the shocking history of homicide in the Palmetto State over the four decades on the cusp of our modern era that saw the demise of dueling, the rise and fall of lynching, and a proliferation of murder. Zusammenfassung Presents the history of changes in homicidal tendencies in South Carolina over four formative decades on the cusp of our modern era. Revisiting one of the nation's last formal duels! this book recounts details of the Cash-Shannon meeting of July 1880 and the ensuing circle of carnage that left nine dead.

Product details

• Authors: John Hammond Moore
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9781570036200
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-620-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous