Most whites had claimed and subsequently reported that lynchings were responses to criminal acts by Black people.

大部分的白人都声称，且后续也描述说私刑的原因是因为这些黑人有犯罪行为在先。

But these are temporary columns, waiting in purgatory, to be placed in the very counties where these lynchings occurred.

这些柱子放在曾经发生私刑的地点，记载了那些曾在炼狱中受苦的人们。

He and his team had been documenting the over 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans that have happened in the American South.

他和他的队友们已经记录了在南美发生的超过4000例的美国非裔的私刑案例。