Description: A comprehensive history of lynching and mob violence in North and South Carolina, focusing on seven specific case studies from the region.
Brief description: Bruce E. Baker is Lecturer in American History at Newcastle University, UK. He is author of What Reconstruction Meant: Historical Memory in the American South and After Slavery: Race, Labor and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South.
Review Quotes: "This Mob Will Surely Take My Life is a major addition to the literature on collective violence in the post-Civil War South. Through these well-researched case studies, the author succeeds in tracing the rise and decline of lynch law in the Carolinas, proving in the process how its persistence and pervasiveness negatively affected both races and all levels of society for more than three-quarters of a century." --Christopher C. Meyers, Valdosta State University, The South Carolina Historical Magazine