| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Carnival of Blood: Dueling, Lynching, and Murder in South Carolina, 1880–1920. By John Hammond Moore. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 250 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-620-9.)
This book is two chapters of lynching analysis surrounded by nine chapters that mostly describe rather than explain murder in South Carolina. The first chapter narrates an 1880 duel between William McCreight Shannon and Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash. Four years later, in the next chapter, Cash's son killed a town marshal after the officer arrested him for drunkenness. In constructing his narratives, John Hammond Moore uses manuscript collections, newspapers, and court records.	1
In chapter 3 Moore turns to lynching, abruptly shifting gears and turning analytical. He begins conventionally, by tracing the term "lynching" to the original Judge Lynch. Less conventionally, Moore chooses "Captain James Lynch (1742–1820)" as his original Judge Lynch. Most efforts to mythologize lynching's origins to an individual point to either Charles Lynch (1736–1796) or to William Lynch (1747–1820). For example an article Moore cites from the Nation (Dec. 4, 1902) states that "the only one whose claims deserve serious consideration is Charles Lynch."	. . .

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