Bücher von Harriet C. Frazier

In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloguer, published a History of Lynching in Kansas. This book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various reasons are not lynchings in Kansas.

A chronological discussion of the death penalty in Missouri that covers those executed from 1803 through 2005. This work covers chapters that discuss such topics as the death penalty offenses of Indians and blacks; death sentences carried out by the military; lynchings; the gas chamber; the executions of rapists, juveniles, and women; and more.

Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the author's information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers.