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At the Hands of Persons Unknown.(Brief Article)
At the Hands of Persons Unknown, by Philip Dray (Random House; $35). In this history of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South -- the most comprehensive of its kind -- the author has written what amounts to a Black Book of American race relations. Dray has scoured the archives and emerged with a plethora of horror stories, but he has also made excellent use of recent work on the psychology and sociology of lynchings and has incorporated everything into a tight, cleanly written narrative. He ...
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