Download or read book Gentlemen of Property and Standing written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying modern social science methods to the newspaper accouts, court records, and correspondence of the time, Mr. Richards reconstitutes these mobs, examines the pattern of their action, and defines the structure of prejudice in the ante-bellum North.