The Silent Shore by Charles L. Chavis - 9781421442921

The Silent ShoreThe Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State\nAuthor(s): Charles L. Chavis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421442921, 978-1421442921\nSynopsis\nThe definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of \""modern-day\"" lynchings.\n\nOn December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Ma""