"The United States of Lyncherdom"
Title
"The United States of Lyncherdom"
Subject
Digital : Essay Document
Description
In 1901, Missouri born author Mark Twain wrote an essay titled "The United States of Lyncherdom" in response to the Pierce City lynchings. He had intended the essay for publication, but decided it was too politically sensitive. The essay was finally published 13 years after Twain's death in a posthumous collection titled Europe and Elsewhere.
"The United States of Lyncherdom" is currently in the public domain in the United States.
Creator
Mark Twain
Source
Text accessed online, June 23rd 2013, at http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam482e/lyncherdom.html
Publisher
OAAHM-Onlinev
Date
Summer 1901
Contributor
Dorothy Berry
Rights
Text is in the public domain
Files
- Date Added
- June 23, 2013
- Collection
- Digital Files
- Citation
- Mark Twain, “"The United States of Lyncherdom",” Ozarks Afro-American History Museum Online, accessed April 26, 2024, https://oaahm.omeka.net/items/show/8.