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“The Tree Where Burton was Hanged
by Mob Springfield Aug. 08.”
Real Photo Post Card with a note in pencil on the
reverse “This is where they did it.”
Illinois, 1908
[400/600]
The Springfield riot of 1908 came about after a series of alleged crimes by blacks culminating
in an accusation of the rape of a white woman by a black. The fixation of the black man raping
the white woman was practically pathological in nature. During the Civil War, when every able
bodied white man was away in the War, not one incident of the rape of a white woman was
reported, except those perpetrated by some Union troops.
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Man about to be
lynched.
Enlarged photograph 9
1
⁄
2
x 7
3
⁄
4
inches; image slightly blurred, of a man with a
noose around his neck. In the background some sort of “official” looking building.
Someone has written “fight Against Slavery” on the reverse in pencil, and “History
Slavery” in ink next to it. In all likelihood, neither have anything to do with the photo-
graph, and were probably added later.
Np, circa 1920’-1930’s
[400/600]
This image is not to be found in James Allen’s virtually definitive work “Without Sanctuary
(Twin Palms, 2003.)
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