Republicans and capitalists who brought their slaves or Coolies into production that could no longer support independent artisans or yeomen. The economic threat to independent artisans, be they farmers or miners, was similar, but the culture of the Georgia Upcountry, Appalachia, and Cumberland Plateau was qualitatively different from the culture of Colorado mining camps. The Regulator tradition notwithstanding, the black slave was not a foreigner or even an invader in the same way as the Chinese were. Black slavery was a Southern tradition, and planters hired non-planter whites to discipline the slaves and to catch runaways for generations before the lynching repertoire emerged. master’s White yeomen learned to lynch in that context. Unlike the Chinese, the Negro was familiar as the detested other. Once the yeomen were no longer capturing runaways in service to the planter but defending their homes and their families from the brutality paralleled the holy wars, “fiends,” in this struggle between good and evil. This holy war of extermination had some parallels in the West, with the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, during the Civil War, but the situation was different, since only Easterners were inclined to defend from military or paramilitary extermination “the savages” efforts, largely supported by Southern as well as Western Democrats (Daily News and Tribune 1872b). Source: Savannah 5 August 1872, p. 2 Daily News and Tribune In the South, however, it was obvious that blacks would be required as laborers if not slaves. Thus declining barbarism and attempts to legitimate ante bellum lynching as vigilantism
Republicans and capitalists who brought their slaves or Coolies into production that could no longer support independent artisans or yeomen. The economic threat to independent artisans, be they farmers or miners, was similar, but the culture of the Georgia Upcountry, Appalachia, and Cumberland Plateau was qualitatively different from the culture of Colorado mining camps. The Regulator tradition notwithstanding, the black slave was not a foreigner or even an invader in the same way as the Chinese were. Black slavery was a Southern tradition, and planters hired non-planter whites to discipline the master’s slaves and to catch runaways for generations before the lynching repertoire emerged. White yeomen learned to lynch in that context. Unlike the Chinese, the Negro was familiar as the detested other. Once the yeomen were no longer capturing runaways in service to the planter but defending their homes and their families from “fiends,” the brutality paralleled the holy wars, in this struggle between good and evil. This holy war of extermination had some parallels in the West, with the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, during the Civil War, but the situation was different, since only Easterners were inclined to defend “the savages” from military or paramilitary extermination efforts, largely supported by Southern as well as Western Democrats (Daily News and Tribune 1872b). Source: Savannah Daily News and Tribune 5 August 1872, p. 2 In the South, however, it was obvious that blacks would be required as laborers if not slaves. Thus declining barbarism and attempts to legitimate ante bellum lynching as vigilantism
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