Vigilante execution from1903 drawing

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This picture was made by Max Slevogt (1868--1932) in Germany; it shows a lynching by an angry mob of a black man, who is about to be hanged (hung?) from a ropewhile a priest watches calmly from a distance. It was first published in Jugend magazine (Youth) in Germany in 1903.

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Size: 7071px × 9800px
Location: Cologne, Germany
Photo credit: © FromOldBooks.org / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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