Post-Emancipation black deaths became economically costless where slave deaths had not.

Evidence

“Killing and maiming large numbers of enslaved people had been unprofitable,” the historian Kidada E. Williams asserts, “but doing the same to free Black people, especially those actively trying to act on their new rights and privileges, was…nobody’s loss.” The annual number of lynchings in the United States reached its peak in 1892, with 230 killings, 161 of which were of black people. That amounts to “almost one every other day.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 287

Categorization

• DEFINE: The economics of lynching: slavery priced Black life, freedom de-priced it completely.