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Robert Lewis
Robert Lewis, illustrated in The Tri-States Union.
DiedJune 2, 1892 (aged 28)
Port Jervis, New York
Cause of death Lynched

Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892. His lynching was attended by what the local newspaper reported was a mob of 2,000 people, [1] and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster. [2]

Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River, [1] after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley. [3]

References

Illustration of lynching from The Evening World.
Illustration of lynching from The Evening World.
  1. ^ a b "A Lynching in New York 130 Years Ago Shows That The North Isn't Immune to Racial Hatred". Time. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  2. ^ Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise (2006). A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 110. ISBN  0-226-30137-0. OCLC  1151339348.
  3. ^ Burrell, Kristopher B. (2003). "Bob Lewis' Encounter with the 'Great Death:' Port Jervis' Entrance into the 'United States of Lyncherdom". CUNY Academic Works. Hostos Community College.
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