Note 165 — Chapter IV · Lynch-law 1830–1860
Reading edition
See Niles’ Register, June 4, 1836 (50: 234).
Also Liberator, May 14, 1836 (6: 79), and May 21, 1836 (6: 83).
A negro slave was burned to death in a similar way in Arkansas in November, 1836, for murdering his master and several negroes. See extract from the Arkansas Gazette in Niles’ Register, Dec. 31, 1836 (51: 275).