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5 - The Hammer and Chisel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

Elijah Gaddis
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Alabama
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This chapter juxtaposes the history of the first Black-funded textile mill in the postbellum southern United States with the lynching of Tom Johnson and Joe Kizer. The study uses the opening of the Warren C. Coleman mill in the same year and town as the Kizer and Johnson lynching to examine the overlaps between white definitions of labor and justifications for racial violence. Through a study of the hammer and chisel used to break into a jail cell to abduct the two victims, the author examines the evolution of working memory in and of the South, particularly as it pertains to questions of race, gender, and age.

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Gruesome Looking Objects
A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things
, pp. 148 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Hammer and Chisel
  • Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University, Alabama
  • Book: Gruesome Looking Objects
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082266.007
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  • The Hammer and Chisel
  • Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University, Alabama
  • Book: Gruesome Looking Objects
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082266.007
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  • The Hammer and Chisel
  • Elijah Gaddis, Auburn University, Alabama
  • Book: Gruesome Looking Objects
  • Online publication: 03 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082266.007
Available formats
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