Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America, warning images were intesely disturbing. I was not able ot go through them all, it was just so disturbing. As far as i got the majority were black males and all were in the south. The thing is I have heard stories and knew that lynching was a part of the South’s history but to see postcard pictures of the event just begins to illustrate how bad the situation was then.
Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America, warning images were intesely disturbing. I was not able ot go through them all, it was just so disturbing. As far as i got the majority were black males and all were in the south. The thing is I have heard stories and knew that lynching was a part of the South’s history but to see postcard pictures of the event just begins to illustrate how bad the situation was then.
I’ve visited a site very much like this in the past. The images are indeed disturbing, but not because it’s an image of a man hanging — because it’s an image of white men celebrating the hanging, desecrating the corpse, and basically whooping it up over the death of a (usually innocent) black man. Images I’ve seen have ranged from a simple hanging to a ‘safari-like’ setup – the lynched man as a trophy.
I agree with both of you, and have to add that another disturbing thing about them was that they were postcards, and one had a “hey dude, write me soon eh?” type message on it. Sad how such a tragic event could be considered “normal” to people.
Of course, in a hundred years the things we do today will be looked upon with the same discust (see Spears, Brittney as an example 🙂
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I’ve visited a site very much like this in the past. The images are indeed disturbing, but not because it’s an image of a man hanging — because it’s an image of white men celebrating the hanging, desecrating the corpse, and basically whooping it up over the death of a (usually innocent) black man. Images I’ve seen have ranged from a simple hanging to a ‘safari-like’ setup – the lynched man as a trophy.
I agree with both of you, and have to add that another disturbing thing about them was that they were postcards, and one had a “hey dude, write me soon eh?” type message on it. Sad how such a tragic event could be considered “normal” to people.
Of course, in a hundred years the things we do today will be looked upon with the same discust (see Spears, Brittney as an example 🙂