Mr. South,
Earlier, I sent links to Prof. Micheal Pfeifer;s research results.
He's as credited as they come for his scholarly and disciplined research skills.
Unfortunately, the cross-regional study he did does not include VA.
Below is the link to the results of his study of lynchings in LA 1878-1946.
Scroll below the map to a list of over 400 names of people who were lynched, the nature of their "crime" and the category of the lynchers.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/p/pfeiferm/Louisiana.html
The 2nd link is to a paper delivered by Prof. Pfeifer on Analysis of a Lynching Syndrome, 1892-1897." at at the Southern Historical Association’s Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 17, 2001--a bit of which I quote at the bottom of this posting.
You might also be interested to know that Prof. Pfeifer's work on lynching in Louisiana was cited on the U.S. Senate Floor on June 13, 2005, by Sen. Landrieu when she introduced a senate resolution apologizing to lynching victime and their descendant.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/p/pfeiferm/Jefferson.html
"The majority of Louisiana's postbellum lynchings occurred in northern cotton belt parishes. There, cotton planters, backed by a white consensus favoring racial hierarchy and the drastic enforcement of the social control of African Americans, utilized lynching to reassert their unconditional authority over black laborers. The incidence of mob killing was heavily concentrated in particular cotton belt areas, namely the Red River Delta in the northwest and the Ouachita River Valley of northeastern Louisiana. Eleven parishes accounted for almost sixty percent of the lynchings.25 The mob murders that occurred in these subregions drew their meaning from the tensions that underlay exploitative arrangements in the rural cotton economy, domestic service, and the credit-based mercantile system. An undercurrent of black racial consciousness that protested the constriction of African American rights also fueled collective white violence. In lynching-prone cotton belt parishes,
planter class whites disabled the formal legal system and imposed informal police powers to punish deviant black laborers. In areas where mob violence was deeply entrenched in local conceptions of jurisprudence and punishment, even African Americans utilized lynching to retaliate against blacks who committed serious crimes such as homicide and rape against blacks.26
"Overall, lynchers in south Louisiana claimed slightly more than a third of the 415 lives lost to lynch mobs in Louisiana between 1878 and 1946. 27"
Footnotes
25 155 of the 260 lynching victims (59.6%) in north Louisiana from 1878 through 1946.
26 For a detailed discussion of lynching and criminal justice in north Louisiana, see Michael J. Pfeifer, "Lynching and Criminal Justice in Regional Context: Iowa, Wyoming, and Louisiana, 1878-1946," (Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1998), 252-310.
27 160 lynching
--Joanne
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