Lynching During The Reconstruction Era

In the late 1880s after the end of the civil war and during the reconstruction period. An awful thing had erupted and it spread across the country. Southern whites saw themselves as a protectors of live and southern white woman and used lynching as a punishment. The whites used lynching because they still saw blacks as property and thought it was a way of punishing them if they did wrong, they didn’t want blacks to have a say in society or be part of it and didn’t want them to have the same jobs.
Even though lynching existed before slavery, it got worse after the civil war and during the reconstruction period. White southerners used lynching as a form of punishment for anything they could think of. They used lynching to punish black that

try to escape before slavery was abolished. They didn’t want blacks as part of society like registering to vote and having a say in life. Lynching was a way that the southern whites used to let out anger against newly freed black slaves it ended up becoming popular. Some white southern males had fear that black males were sexual predators was trying to get with white women. One reason why whites used lynching was because they took matters into their own hands and punished blacks for doing wrong like murder or theft. Most lynching’s were just over petty things. For example like theft but there was the big one which was blacks looking or glancing at white woman. Most victims that were lynched were black businessmen or ones that would want to fight.
As upset the southern whites where about abolishing slavery and losing the civil war, they ended up taking out their frustration out on the blacks. Whites didn’t want blacks to have any part in life and surly didn’t want them to have same jobs as them. Southern whites just simply didn’t see blacks as equal since they had different skin tone.