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Subject:	Re: The Law & Lynching (was Re: Topic Picnic and Its Derogatory Commitations along with Negro Barbeques)
From:	"Stephan A. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:36:42 -0400
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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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