Abstract: On 6 January 1897 Lawrence Brown, a young Black laborer in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, was found dead, hanging from a railroad danger signal after he had been arrested, released, and then killed by unidentified men. This article asks what happened to legal responsibility when a lynching could be established but the lynchers could not.
Giovanni Santoro (2026);
“Party or Parties Unknown”: Lawrence Brown, Lynching, and Collective Liability in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1897;
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP)
16(9) (ISSN: 2250-3153),
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29322/IJSRP.16.09.2026.p17722
