Lynching & racial terror
The lynching of Anthony Crawford
21 October 1916Abbeville, SC
Anthony Crawford farmed 427 acres and argued with a white merchant over the price of cottonseed. He was beaten, dragged through Abbeville and hanged; his family was ordered out of the county and lost the land.
- People killed
- 1
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.