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To: PeterPrinciple; vetvetdoug; Travis McGee

I doubt the Klan was the nations biggest lync her

More likely vigilantes

One reads about how violent criminals were dealt with by locals in 1600s thru early 1800s in developing America and territories

I live near the Natchez Trace

Lynching and beheadings with severed heads on pikes as warning to other bandits was common

( see Harpe brothers)

There were really three Klan incarcerations

The first was southern to combat Reconstruction and was successful could be argued

Second a nationwide group more centered in the Midwest and was violent at times yet had public membership and marched openly in DC

Third was the Klan if Sam Bowers and Californian Byron de la Beckwith that terrorized the freedom riders and other opposition in the 50s and 60 and was mostly southern and could be quite violent

Just for info

But I gaurantee most lyncings in USA historically were not Klan

It was frontier justice citizenry ....the vast majority

Now we’re whipped


70 posted on 08/27/2016 8:30:38 AM PDT by wardaddy (free republic is an aging demographic)
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To: wardaddy
General NB Forrest disbanded the first KKK when it no longer was needed and the former Confederates were no longer disenfranchised with respect to voting. It resurfaced after his death and morphed into the despicable creation of the later versions. History is perverted with PC. I can see where the blacks are getting their information; thirty five years ago a Ph.D historian and I took some college black history books and critiqued them and found the falsehoods and incorrect and fantasy history unconscionable.

Remember, Abraham Lincoln was responsible for the largest mass hanging in US history.

78 posted on 08/27/2016 9:19:21 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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