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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America Hardcover – November 1, 1999

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“Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe―don't want to believe―that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to . . . an American holocaust." –John Lewis, US Congressman

The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 Black Americans between 1882 and 1950. Many times, a photographer was present to capture these events. Without Sanctuary preserves these harrowing, death-marked depictions, saving them so that we may recognize the terrorism unleashed on America’s African American community. Editor James Allen, an American antique collector, includes nearly 100 images of lynchings in America from his own collection, including battleground cases such as the 1911 murders of Laura and Lawrence Nelson in Okemah, Oklahoma the lynching of Rubin Stacy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1935, and the infamous 1915 execution of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank in Marietta, Georgia. These images are accompanied by Allen’s own notes, as well as texts from the late US congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, the late slavery and Reconstruction historian Leon Litwack, and writer and theater critic Hilton Als, professor at University of California in Berkeley and Columbia University. Now in its 17th printing, Without Sanctuary remains a singular testament to the camera’s ability to make us remember what we often choose to forget.
James Allen (born 1954) is an American collector best known for his vast collection of photographs of lynchings in America. Some of his collected items are now located in the Smithsonian and the High Museum of Art.
Leon Litwack (1929–2021) was a professor of American History at the University of California in Berkeley from 1964 to 2007. He specialized in the Reconstruction Era and the aftermath of slavery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His 1979 book Been in the Storm So Long won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize and the National Book Award.
Hilton Als (born 1960) is a writer and theater critic. He holds professorial positions at the University of California in Berkeley and Columbia University, and serves as a staff writer and theater critic for the New Yorker. In 2017 he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Als has also curated several group art exhibitions including Forces in Nature at Victoria Miro Gallery and Alice Neel: Uptown at David Zwirner Gallery.
John Lewis (1940–2020) became involved in the Civil Rights movement when he was still a teenager. He was introduced to both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., and participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins as well as the 1961 Freedom Rides. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, he was one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders who coordinated the March on Washington. He represented Georgia’s 5th District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 until his death in 2020.

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The world needs to read and see this:This is American History at its normal pace. Hypocrisy. You can teach world history and never find anything like this outside of a Holocaust. The Holocausts in Africa, are the only things that will rival this type of Horrific display of hatred towards another human being that were your slaves, treated this way as free men, and still serve the same nation to date. Sadly the Americano Negro still live in the land of their oppressors and the land of their Holocaust on a mass scale. America (the nation) owes a debt to the descendants of American slavery.Just like any other debt America has, all immigrants, and citizens inherit the nation's debt, finicial responsibility, and aid it gives and owes. You can always immigrate to another nation if you do not want to acrue/contribute to it's debt. America seem capable to pay all debts but this one. They refuse to and teach all who enter their borders the same talking points to follow suit. They never rally against any other debt owed or paid with tax dollars, but this one. Funny how 3 trillion a year of Black Americans money is spent in this nation annually.The Americano Negro is the only true ally white America has. They have no other national loyalty, nor send or spend financial resources to any other nation but America, and yet the criminal system is still plaguing them. The law has always been weaponized against them. This book shows the freedom these murderers were privileged to have with impunity. Yet reparations is still a debate in this nation? I believe it is the will of God that every generation denies them justice that they also be partakers in this judgment that none should escape by doing what is right... This book and many more like it is living breathing proof that a debt is owed and God will have his recompense...
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2024
    Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America" is a powerful and haunting exploration of the historical phenomenon of lynching in the United States, presented through a collection of photographs. The book features a stark juxtaposition of chilling images and poignant commentary, shedding light on the brutality and racial violence that marked this dark chapter in American history.

    Readers often find the photographs deeply impactful, as they capture the grim realities faced by African Americans, while also highlighting the complicity of society in these acts of violence. The accompanying essays provide essential context, discussing the cultural, social, and historical implications of lynching.

    While the book can be difficult to digest due to its subject matter, it is considered an important educational tool that prompts critical reflection on race relations and justice in America. Overall, "Without Sanctuary" serves as a vital reminder of the past, urging readers to confront uncomfortable truths and fostering a deeper understanding of systemic racism.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2024
    Educational
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
    The world needs to read and see this:
    This is American History at its normal pace. Hypocrisy. You can teach world history and never find anything like this outside of a Holocaust. The Holocausts in Africa, are the only things that will rival this type of Horrific display of hatred towards another human being that were your slaves, treated this way as free men, and still serve the same nation to date. Sadly the Americano Negro still live in the land of their oppressors and the land of their Holocaust on a mass scale. America (the nation) owes a debt to the descendants of American slavery.

    Just like any other debt America has, all immigrants, and citizens inherit the nation's debt, finicial responsibility, and aid it gives and owes. You can always immigrate to another nation if you do not want to acrue/contribute to it's debt. America seem capable to pay all debts but this one. They refuse to and teach all who enter their borders the same talking points to follow suit. They never rally against any other debt owed or paid with tax dollars, but this one. Funny how 3 trillion a year of Black Americans money is spent in this nation annually.

    The Americano Negro is the only true ally white America has. They have no other national loyalty, nor send or spend financial resources to any other nation but America, and yet the criminal system is still plaguing them. The law has always been weaponized against them. This book shows the freedom these murderers were privileged to have with impunity. Yet reparations is still a debate in this nation? I believe it is the will of God that every generation denies them justice that they also be partakers in this judgment that none should escape by doing what is right... This book and many more like it is living breathing proof that a debt is owed and God will have his recompense...
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    5.0 out of 5 stars These were Good ol Christian W.Folk?
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
    The world needs to read and see this:
    This is American History at its normal pace. Hypocrisy. You can teach world history and never find anything like this outside of a Holocaust. The Holocausts in Africa, are the only things that will rival this type of Horrific display of hatred towards another human being that were your slaves, treated this way as free men, and still serve the same nation to date. Sadly the Americano Negro still live in the land of their oppressors and the land of their Holocaust on a mass scale. America (the nation) owes a debt to the descendants of American slavery.

    Just like any other debt America has, all immigrants, and citizens inherit the nation's debt, finicial responsibility, and aid it gives and owes. You can always immigrate to another nation if you do not want to acrue/contribute to it's debt. America seem capable to pay all debts but this one. They refuse to and teach all who enter their borders the same talking points to follow suit. They never rally against any other debt owed or paid with tax dollars, but this one. Funny how 3 trillion a year of Black Americans money is spent in this nation annually.

    The Americano Negro is the only true ally white America has. They have no other national loyalty, nor send or spend financial resources to any other nation but America, and yet the criminal system is still plaguing them. The law has always been weaponized against them. This book shows the freedom these murderers were privileged to have with impunity. Yet reparations is still a debate in this nation? I believe it is the will of God that every generation denies them justice that they also be partakers in this judgment that none should escape by doing what is right... This book and many more like it is living breathing proof that a debt is owed and God will have his recompense...
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2000
    It did. I live in Atlanta, just a few miles from some of the trees in this book, just a few miles from Stone Mountain were they lit crosses up until the 1960s. Evil walked the land HERE - not in far off Europe, HERE, under the Stars and Stripes.
    Lynching became America's national pastime after the Civil War, at least in the South. From the 1880s to the 1930s the US averaged over 100 lynchings a year, mostly in the South, over 75% of the victims were black.
    This book brings a powerful light to a dark dirty corner of the American experience and psyche. This book is savage, gut-wrenching, and profoundly and deeply disturbing. The photos bear witness to monstrous crimes against humanity. The charred and mutilated bodies of the dead are shocking, and the depraved lust-filled feral faces of the lynch mobs are truly disgusting.
    The oppression of slavery gave way to the viciousness and animalism of Jim Crow, and for 100 years the "vicious racists" (as Dr. King called them) ruled supreme in the southern USA, as evil in their stupidity and cowardly fear as the Nazis of Germany were in their arrogance and megalomania.
    There are Holocaust deniers. Here in the US we have slavery and Jim Crow deniers, and racism deniers. This book and these awful pictures certainly do not support the happy mythology of the Lost Cause or the "New South"; nor the myth of color-blind justice in the USA. The evil on these pages is the evil one imagines in a pack of wild rabid dogs - savage, arbitrary, unspeakably cruel.
    This book is a powerful dose of anti-denial. Most people know what slavery was really about, and have an idea about lynching. But just seeing the "strange fruit of southern trees" is like Eve eating the apple in Eden. It moved me, and I cannot go back to the lies and denial and the forgetting. Kudos to Mr. Allen for bringing these postcards and photos to our faces, so that this pornography of evil, stupidity, self-righteousness and barbarism can be seen for what it was, what it is, and what it still might be, so we can say "Never Again" to this Holocaust too.
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  • Raye
    5.0 out of 5 stars Painful... But Worth the read
    Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2023
    This book is a painful read... I got this book about noon, it is now 320 and I have not stopped reading... As a child I a had heard the stories from my elders and was shocked... But to read more horrid stories and to have photos to show what really happened, is heart breaking... "America's Holocaust" was used when telling of this book and its contents... And it does not lie

    As I said, painful ... But so worth knowing the history, so that it may not be repeated...
  • jacqueline tulloch
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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2024
    Great quality book came well packaged and before time too so thanks
  • Gorgonio Gatto
    5.0 out of 5 stars STORIA DEGLI USA
    Reviewed in Italy on June 2, 2014
    Questi dolorosi fatti della Storia di un grande paese come gli Stati Uniti d' America, sono poco conosciuti in Italia.
  • John McIntyre
    5.0 out of 5 stars informative
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2023
    Very informative but missed some important events like the mass lynchings called the Tulsa race massacre. The book also fails to put the violence into its modern context. The lynchings were spoken of as if they were historical events words like ''never again'' are used while the last lynching took place in Texas on June 7, 1998 with the killing of James Byrd, (49 years old) in East Texas. In its simplest form Lynchings are murder without trial perpetrated by white privilege against ethnic minorities, by white against non whites. With America' burgeoning Drone assassination program now killing on an industrial scale targeting weddings and funerals alike it is pure fantasy to believe that the killing has stopped. Grim though the killings are the ethos that ethnic minorities are fair game for violence is as much part of American ideology today as it was in the early 1900's. Just ask the men women and children of the Bikini islands who were experimented on by the US government to test how exposure to nuclear radiation killed over the long and medium term. If you thought the description of the lynching of a pregnant woman was grim this mirrors the harrowing accounts of the Bikini Islanders much closer to our current day where pregnant women and children were experimented on dying in excruciating agony.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on March 24, 2018
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