Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America Reviews

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  Raye

  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 horrid stories and to have photos to show what really happened, is heart
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  goodreads Customer

  Excellent
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  Red Xala

  I look at the pictures of the victims, mostly young black men some of them tortured and hanged, some of them burned beyond recognition. I look at the images of the white perpetrators, staring unabashedly into the camera; some of them looking satisfied, some of them
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  taking a rest

  There are no adjectives that do justice to the depravity that is documented in this book. No book I have read has been disturbing to read or comment upon. The reason is the proximity in time and place of these events of pure evil. Twenty three States, one shy of
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  Cold Hard Blues

  There is nothing that can make right a wrong done that is unacknowledged. This book documents some of the than 4,700 horrible wrongs execution of criminal suspects without due process of law witnessed by a cast of millions of willing and cheering
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  The Sanity Inspector

  History is a tissue of agreed upon lies, Napoleon is supposed to have once said. Well, this particular bit of history is not yet past enough for anyone to convincingly lie about. When some Russians urged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to let the bad old days of
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  David Sheriff

  Kids, Thanks for the birthday present I suggested, the book Without Sanctuary, published last month. It arrived yesterday and I sat down and read it from cover to cover. The book is horrifying, fascinating and chastening. You might think it a strange or
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  Richard S. Sullivan

  The review guidelines here at say: Your comments should focus on the books content and context. This books content is no less than the sum total of who we are as humans. It is a book not about photographs, but about what photographs are
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  Wanda Henderson Hearn

  Pictures are worth a thousand words and this book shows truth of injustice towards people of color living in American. It is a book that should be in every person of color home. History has a way of repeating itself and it tell the picture story of the injustice done to Black/Color people. Words could not explain lynching like the actual pictures has capture the atrocities done to Blacks.
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  Gorgonio Gatto

  Questi dolorosi fatti della Storia di un grande paese come gli Stati Uniti d America, sono poco conosciuti in Italia.
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  jacqueline tulloch

  Great quality book came well packaged and before time too so thanks
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  John McIntyre

  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 1900s. 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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  Tony

  Heart braking and eye opening. I bought this so this horrible history will be shared and never be swept under the rug USA has a debt in blood to all black people