(RACISM LYNCHING) HERRING B W Caste and Class

Sale 2342 - Lot 249

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(RACISM--LYNCHING.) HERRING, B. W. Caste and Class. Broadside, 13-1/4 x 6-1/8 inches; creases where folded; together with two autograph letters signed (June 6, and July 2, 1903) from the author of the broadside to his brother in Tallahassee, Florida discussing the burning alive of a Negro at Wilmington Delaware in 1903; one of them on Goldsboro Argus stationary. Goldsboro, N.C., 1903

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The author of the broadside, as well as the letters was B.W. Herring, an editor on the Goldsboro Argus. The broadside advertises Herring's book "Caste and Class", which recommends a caste system for the United States as a solution to the 'Race Question.' The lot alludes to the lynching and burning of a Negro in Wilmington Delaware. In his July 2nd letter, Herring writes: 'Burning the Negro alive at Wilmington seems to be the Yankee's way of dealing with the race question. The Negro must not touch the Yankee woman, but when he assaulted the Southern woman, the Yankee cried out 'give him a fair trial.'. . .The South is sending Negroes North to give the Yankee a little practical knowledge of his brother in black.'