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A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows is based on a crude sketch ... Its graphic depiction of a slave in Surinam hanging by a single rib illustrates the general lack of compassion whites ...

The hanging site would be free of all civilians. No person was allowed within hearing distance of the gallows; if Brown presented memorable last words, they would go unheard. One of the few ...

John Morgan on the gallows Dec. 16, 1897, awaiting the executioner at the last public hanging in West Virginia, which was in Ripley. The event is the subject of “The Last Gallows: John Morgan ...