| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John Hammond Moore.Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880–1920. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 250. $29.95.

Examining the "business of killing human beings" (p. 1), John Hammond Moore offers readers a wild ride through four decades of violence and carnage in the Palmetto State. Addressing the sheer amount of violence, Moore concedes that "why little was done to curb violence throughout South Carolina during these decades" remains "elusive" (p. 4). Instead Moore tries to impose a kind of order on South Carolina violence by tracing the rise and, in some cases, decline of dueling, lynching, and murder as the violent acts of choice among South Carolinians Moore acknowledges the difficulty of his task at the outset: different types of violence are "closely related—all pieces of the same quilt" (p. 11). Yet, he contends, each type can be drawn out individually for closer examination.

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