Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
ORIGINS
CHAPTER 1 The Thirteenth Turn: Origins of the Noose, 11
CHAPTER 2 Rope, Ritual, Roots: The Iron Age Hanging of Tollund Man, 27
CHAPTER 3 An Ignoble Death: Hanging from the Roman Empire to Medieval
Europe, 39
REVOLUTIONS
CHAPTER 4 At the Crossroads:The Spectacle of Hanging in Colonial New
York, 55
CHAPTER 5 Hanging Hannah Occuish in Post-Revolution America, 81
CHAPTER 6 Meteors of War: Death by Hanging and the End of Slavery, 99
CHAPTER 7 The Noose in the Museum: Hanging and Native America, 127
LYNCHING
CHAPTER 8 Alone from a Tree: Lynching in the Post-Reconstruction South,159
CHAPTER 9 A Story of Hands: An Early Twentieth-Century Lynching in the
American Midwest, 183
CHAPTER 10 Strange Fruit:The Legacy of Marion, 201
A GOOD DEATH
CHAPTER 11 When the Gallows Come Down, 221
CHAPTER 12 The New Burning Cross, 239
CHAPTER 13 The Noose in Our World, 267
Notes 281
Sources 323
Selected Bibliography 325
Index 337