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I wrote a piece on the Rosewood massacre and lynching which I will
send to anyone on the list who contacts me. To avoid the to and fro,
I tried to send it, so that those who were interested could download
it, but the list does not permit this.
-- Stephan
On 24 Jun 2007, at 01:58, Laura Fortune wrote:
> The term "lynching" originated in Altavista, Virginia, during the
> Revolutionbry War, when Col. Charles Lynch took the law into his
> own hands
> instead of taking British sympathizers to Williamsburg for trial.
> He tied
> the accused to a tree on the Avoca property and lashed them. The tree
> remains, filled with concrete, are on the Avoca Museum property.
> Later the
> term came to mean "hanging by the neck until dead".
>
> Just a tidbit of Virginia history.
>
> Laura Catherine D. Fortune
> James R. Fortune
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