Negro barbecue and lynching bee

[Michael Quinion]

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> While looking into "picnic" recently, these two phrases often turned
> up in modern descriptions of lynchings of Blacks. "Lynching bee" is
> recorded in HDAS but I can find no contemporary instance of "Negro
> barbecue". Is this another aspect to the modern folklore of the
> subject or was the term actually used?


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Michael Quinion
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