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Lynch Laws During The 1700's

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The Lynch Laws The 1780 Lynch Laws’, it states that punishment, torture and even, death like hanging. They get convicted by being in mob related crimes and doing other stuff anything like that without legal process or authority. It was named after Charles Lynch for being a loyalist during the american war. Was later printed on a federal document in the later 1700’s. Ida B. Wells published the story that Lynch had stated that it was unfair and everything like that. They were not being treated fairly and wanted equal rights so they can get the same prices and other stuff like that. They couldn’t go into certain restaurants and had their own water bubblers and other stuff like that.

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