State cooperation made lynching a mechanism of wealth confiscation

Evidence

The wealth that the Mosses had worked so hard to build for Maurine and Tommie Jr. was violently stripped away with the help of the state. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 303

Categorization

• SEED: ‘The Tommie Moss precedent’ — lynching as a wealth transfer event: an essay angle on reparations history framed as theft-with-the-state-as-accessory.
• XREF: connects to: Financial dependence on extremist organizations delayed members’ exit — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 37