Abstract
The precepts of the culture of honor in the southern
region of the United States promoted violence for retribution, ostensibly for
affronts, and the redemption of honor. Typically, the narratives of lynch
lawlessness examine the lynching of African American men by Caucasian mobs.
More recently, researchers have begun examining intra-racial mob violence, a
new field in the study of lynching. This discourse examines the intersection of
violence, the culture of honor, and African American intra-racial mobocracy in
the Cotton Belt region of Georgia in 1892.
