| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916. By William D. Carrigan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xiv, 308 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02951-8.)

This compellingly written monograph focuses on the context of lynching and collective violence in seven central Texas counties surrounding Waco. From exhaustive research in newspapers, personal and governmental correspondence, legal records, and oral history, William D. Carrigan argues that, in the decades after the Civil War, white central Texans turned to extensive extralegal violence against African Americans by drawing upon memories that glorified the great violence used to conquer Mexicans and Native Americans and to control black slaves in the initial years of Anglo-American settlement. Carrigan shows persuasively that continuous black resistance to white supremacy, from slavery through the first decades of the twentieth century, provoked retaliatory white mob violence.

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