Blood on the Streets: Civil War Era Lynching

Racialized lynching in the U.S., has a longer history than many people might realize today. Anti-Black lynchings occurred during the antebellum era in free states such as New York where pro-slavery New Yorkers committed murder in the streets.   “Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves; black body swinging in the  

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