Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

man who was

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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, and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella '' The Monster''. Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River, after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.

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The Lynching of Robert Lewis at Port Jervis

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