Author: Mcculloch, Jock
Hardback; Book
272 pages
Published: September 2000
Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253337283

This volume looks at the moral panic in early 20th-century Rhodesia over the supposed threat posed by black men to white women. Known as Black Peril it led to the introduction of the death penalty for attempted rape. Over the next 30 years more than 20 men were executed, many of them innocent.