Directions: You are to use the Lynching reading and videos to help you answer the questions below. Your
responses should exhibit careful thought and logical reasoning and
provide evidence for your position. Each response should be at least one
well-developed paragraph (with 5-6 sentences or more, unless
otherwise indicated for each) Use correct spelling, punctuation, and
grammar.
DO NOT WRITE THE QUESTIONS! Number each response.
Also, please do not double space your work but put spacing between each response and do not use any font larger at 12pts.
1. Describe how black peonage and black chain gangs fit into the
South’s economic, legal and criminal system in this era. Whose interest
did peonage and chain gangs serve? How did the conditions of peonage and
the chain gang compare with the conditions of slavery?
2. Discuss lynching as both a spectacle and a symbol. What were the lessons to be learned from lynching for blacks For whites?
3. How do peonage, lynching, the chain gang, and the campaigns to
abolish them illustrate the tension between constraint and agency,
between oppression and resistance?
please no PLAGIARISM
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