Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South: Manners and Massacres in Danville, Virginia

Dailey, Jane

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“…76 Additionally, and possibly of greater relevance, the violent overthrow of the biracial Readjuster government in the Danville, Virginia, Massacre was, per the conservative Democrats, a response to a mob of armed black men firing at whites in the streets. 77 Fortunately, the supposed masses of armed black men roaming the streets of the Tenth District did not lead to bloodshed. But the implications were the same: the Southern (white) way of life needed to be defended against the armed mobs of black men that Watson and the Populists were creating.…”

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Intimidation Was the Program: The Alleged Attempt to Lynch H. Seb Doyle, the “Rhetoric of Corruption,” and Disfranchisement

Barnes¹

2019

J. gilded age prog. era

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In 1892, H. Seb Doyle, an African American preacher, learned that Democrats sought to lynch him due to his support of Populist Congressman Tom Watson. Was the threat real? This question became the center of a campaign discussion of race, politics, and corruption. Democratic and Populist newspapers’ accounts of this issue reveal the role of the “rhetoric of corruption” in the Georgia Populist Party's campaigns in the 1890s. Ironically, Populists used the same rhetoric Democrats had used against Republicans during Reconstruction. Populists linked Democratic political and economic malfeasance with the racial “corruptions” of miscegenation and “Negro Domination.” Although the Populists attempted to make this link, their insistence on black and white political equality undermined their white supremacist rhetoric, thereby weakening their case. Despite the Populists’ failure, the ultimate result was the same: the Populists came to abandon biracial politics and called for greater disfranchisement, all in the name of reform.

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Intimidation Was the Program: The Alleged Attempt to Lynch H. Seb Doyle, the “Rhetoric of Corruption,” and Disfranchisement

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2019

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The “Vicarious Play” of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895–1905

Wood¹

2013

Violence and Visibility in Modern History

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African-American Public Rituals on the Fourth of July and Citizenship in South Carolina During Reconstruction

Strickland

2006

Citizenship Studies

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Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South: Manners and Massacres in Danville, Virginia

Cited by 32 publications

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Intimidation Was the Program: The Alleged Attempt to Lynch H. Seb Doyle, the “Rhetoric of Corruption,” and Disfranchisement

Intimidation Was the Program: The Alleged Attempt to Lynch H. Seb Doyle, the “Rhetoric of Corruption,” and Disfranchisement

The “Vicarious Play” of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895–1905

African-American Public Rituals on the Fourth of July and Citizenship in South Carolina During Reconstruction

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