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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
You have the wrong Lynch. Charles Lynch was never accused of using trees. It was William Lynch, 30 years later, that introduced trees to kill black slaves who were not obedient.
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Charles Lynch, however, is known to have used the term ‘Lynch law’ himself as early as 1782, and we are not talking about actually hanging anybody in this instance. The trees are immaterial.