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January 7, 1901
The Daily Journal
Salem, Marion County, Oregon
What is this article about?
Harvard Professor Albert B. Hart, from Boston, clarifies a misreported statement from his recent Detroit speech, opposing burning at the stake for crimes by negroes as brutalizing and ineffective, and suggesting legalization if demanded to control it.
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Boston, Jan. - Prof. Albert B. Hart, of Harvard, in explanation of his speech delivered recently at Detroit, Mich., said:
"The statement that I advocated burning at the stake as a legal penalty for negro crimes comes from a wrong impression of my views. I never made such an assertion. My opinion is exactly the opposite.
"I believe lynchings are a return to the cruelties of most medieval trials. Burning at the stake is not a deterrent of crime, but a brutalizing of the whole population, white and black. And the South shows its horror of it by refusing to make it legal.
"If the people of the South or any community demand the burning at the stake of negroes as a penalty for committing homicide crimes, the state should make burning the legal penalty."
Boston, Jan. - Prof. Albert B. Hart, of Harvard, in explanation of his speech delivered recently at Detroit, Mich., said:
"The statement that I advocated burning at the stake as a legal penalty for negro crimes comes from a wrong impression of my views. I never made such an assertion. My opinion is exactly the opposite.
"I believe lynchings are a return to the cruelties of most medieval trials. Burning at the stake is not a deterrent of crime, but a brutalizing of the whole population, white and black. And the South shows its horror of it by refusing to make it legal.
"If the people of the South or any community demand the burning at the stake of negroes as a penalty for committing homicide crimes, the state should make burning the legal penalty."
What sub-type of article is it?
Lynching Debate
Racial Punishment
What keywords are associated?
Professor Hart
Lynching
Burning At Stake
Negro Crimes
South
Harvard
Detroit Speech
What entities or persons were involved?
Prof. Albert B. Hart
Harvard
Where did it happen?
Boston
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Event Date
Jan.
Key Persons
Prof. Albert B. Hart
Harvard
Outcome
south refuses to make burning at the stake legal, showing horror of it
Event Details
Professor Hart explains his speech, denying advocacy for burning at the stake as legal penalty for negro crimes, calling lynchings medieval cruelties that brutalize society, and suggesting states legalize it if demanded by communities for homicide crimes.