This actually feels low? That’s 50/year, not sure what a normal homicide rate would be for this area at this time.
Of course, there would be psychological effects from thinking you could be lynched from anywhere. Not the same as 50 gang murders a year where most people assume they wouldn’t be involved.
Over twenty-four hundred Blacks were murdered by Southern whites between 1882 and 1930.4 — Mediocre, pg 113