Kayzee’s Reviews > A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial > Status Update

"White men lynched, or so went the suddenly conventional wisdom, because black men raped white women and girls....Either way, most white Americans took it on faith that lynching was a response to rape. To this, theorists both North and South added the idea of 'degeneracy' to explain why lynchings had become so commonplace. Slavery, they claimed, had kept the natural criminal tendencies of Africans under control."