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Book Shadow of the Gallows

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  • Author : George G. Gilman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780450058578
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Shadow of the Gallows written by George G. Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shadow of the Gallow

Download or read book The Shadow of the Gallow written by Samuel John Gurney Hoare Templewood (1st Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Gallows written by Jeannine Marie DeLombard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders—even slaves—appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists—most notably, Frederick Douglass—could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

Book The Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book The Shadow of the Gallows written by Viscount Templewood and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow of the Gallows

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  • Author : Steven Grey
  • Publisher : Robert Hale
  • Release : 2012-02-29
  • ISBN : 0709098197
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Shadow of the Gallows written by Steven Grey and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When homesteader Ralph Bannister is murdered, Tom Steadman becomes the obvious suspect. After being found guilty and sentenced to hang he seeks the help of Bellington's Detective Agency. Zachary Cobb and Neil Travis make the journey to Newberry with only four days left to prove Steadman innocent. But Cobb's troubles begin even before he and Neil arrive in the town. Attacked by two men, Cobb is forced to kill them. It will take a great deal of blood and trouble before Bannister's real killer can be revealed.

Book In the Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Gallows written by Jim Hornby and published by University of Prince Edwards Island. This book was released on 1998 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book The Shadow of the Gallows written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book Shadow of the Gallows written by Terry Deary and published by 케이론교육. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a boy called Bairn is rescued from his dangerous job as an Edinburgh chimney sweep, he appears to have landed on his feet. But his new job proves just as dangerous and he soon becomes caught up in a plot to kill Queen Victoria. Has he been saved from slavery only to end up swinging from the gallows?

Book Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book Shadow of the Gallows written by Justin Atholl and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Gallows written by C. A. Balan and published by . This book was released on 1979-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Shadow of the Gallows

Download or read book In the Shadow of the Gallows written by C. A. Balan and published by Madras : Sangam Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Compelling Account Of The 11 Years The Author, A Communist Trade-Unionist, Spent In Jail Waiting To Be Hanged On Charges Of Murder, And His Reflections On Justice, Prisons And The Dark Humanity On Both Sides Of The Bar. Condition Good.

Book Against the Gallows

Download or read book Against the Gallows written by Paul Christian Jones and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing cooperation of America’s writers—including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E. D. E. N. Southworth, and Herman Melville—with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. In an age of passionate reform efforts, the antigallows movement enjoyed broad popularity, waging its campaign in legislatures, pulpits, newspapers, and literary journals. Although it failed in its ultimate goal of ending hangings across the United States, the movement did achieve various improvements in the practices of the justice system, including reducing the number of capital crimes, eliminating public executions in most northern states, and abolishing capital punishment completely in three states. Although a few historians have studied the antebellum movement against capital punishment, until now very little attention has been paid to the role of America’s writers in these efforts. Jones’s study recovers the relationship between the nation’s literary figures and the movement against the death penalty, illustrating that the editors of literary journals actively encouraged and published antigallows writing, that popular crime novelists created a sympathy toward criminals that led readers to question the state’s justifications for capital punishment, that poets crafted verse that advocated strongly for Christian sympathy for criminals that coincided with an antipathy to the death penalty, and that female sentimental writers fashioned melodramatic narratives that illustrated the injustice of the hanging and reimagined the justice system itself as a sympathetic subject capable of incorporating compassion into its workings and seeing reform rather than revenge as its ends.

Book The Kevin Woods Story

Download or read book The Kevin Woods Story written by Kevin John Woods and published by 30 Degrees South. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He who tells the truth is not well liked" -- Bambara of Mali proverb

Book Black Bird of the Gallows

Download or read book Black Bird of the Gallows written by Meg Kassel and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” —Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What's more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees

Book Shadow of the Gallows

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  • Author : S. J. Stewart
  • Publisher : Amazon Publishing
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780803493711
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Shadow of the Gallows written by S. J. Stewart and published by Amazon Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Newland arrives in Arizona Territory to start a new life and finds that his past has followed him in the person of Ben Draper, a Texas gun-fighter whose brother Dan was forced to kill. Dan leaves Yuma and heads northeast across the desert towards the high country. On the way, he meets Ash Quigley and his pretty, strong-willed granddaughter, Tony. The Quigley's enemies become Dan's own, and he must defend his new friends against a cattle baron who covets wealth and power, and will take it any way he can. All the while, Dan knows he will have to face Draper in a final showdown. The stakes are high. Dan will have to risk everything to win the new life he so desperately wants.

Book Imperial Gallows

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  • Author : Stacey Hynd
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-11-02
  • ISBN : 135030266X
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Imperial Gallows written by Stacey Hynd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the death penalty was an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. Imperial Gallows analyses capital trials from Kenya, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast to explore the social tensions that fueled murder among colonised populations, and how colonial legal cultures and landscapes of political authority shaped sentencing and mercy. It demonstrates how ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and 'civilization' could both spare and condemn Africans convicted of murder in colonial courts, and also how Africans could either appropriate or resist such colonial legal discourses in their trials and petitions. In this book, Stacey Hynd follows the whole process of capital punishment from the identification of a murder victim to trial and conviction, through the process of mercy and sentencing onto death row and execution. The scandals that erupted over the death penalty, from botched executions and moral panics over ritual murder, to the hanging of anti-colonial rebels for 'terrorist' and emergency offences, provide significant insights into the shifting moral and political economies of colonial violence. This monograph contextualises the death penalty within the wider penal systems and coercive networks of British colonial Africa to highlight the shifting targets of the imperial gallows against rebels, robbers or domestic murderers. Imperial Gallows demonstrates that while hangings were key elements of colonial iconography in British Africa, symbolically loaded events that demonstrated imperial power and authority, they also reveal the limits of that power.

Book Shadows of the Gallows

Download or read book Shadows of the Gallows written by Patrick Charles Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: