This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1860-1927

Authors

Kristen Epps

ISBN

9780252039508

Price

$50.00

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Abstract

Not a Free State After All: African Americans and Racist Violence in the North

In January 1870, a white mob broke into a local jail, kidnapped a black prisoner named George Johnson, tied him to a horse, drug him across town, and then hanged him. As one observer wrote, Johnson was “torn, ma....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.18.3.19

Recommended Citation

Epps, Kristen (2016) "This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1860-1927," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 18 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.18.3.19
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol18/iss3/18