The End of Public Execution
Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South
By Michael Ayers Trotti
266 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 11 tables
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7041-6
Published: December 2022 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7040-9
Published: December 2022 -
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Published: November 2022 -
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Published: November 2022
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About the Author
Michael Ayers Trotti is professor of history at Ithaca College. He is the author of The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South.
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"With this book, Trotti has set the stage for a new kind of history (and history of the present) of the death penalty in the United States. The book is detailed in its depiction of executions and yet broad in its theoretical as well as historical implications . . . . an important book in more ways than one."—Church History
"Trotti’s book is a fascinating study of the subversive power of communal faith."—The Christian Century
"Impressive . . . . Trotti’s work not only fills a gap in the literature but also upends long-held assumptions that have guided the scholarship of those studying extralegal punishment."—Journal of American History
“This excellent book will be useful to scholars in a variety of fields, particularly those in southern history, religious history, African American history, and the history of crime and punishment.”–Journal of Southern History
"[Trotti's] triangular focus on race, religion, and public spectacles of violence is thought-provoking, intuitively written, and striking."—Journal of Church and State
"[Trotti] weaves a wholly unexpected story for how the New South ended up at the electric chair. His narrative, backed by extensive evidence and data drawn from 1,300 executions carried out in the former Confederate states between the end of the Civil War and 1936, is less a story of the consolidation of state power through technological and political means than a history driven by the agency of Southern African Americans resisting a paranoid and reactive state."—The Civil War Monitor