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Chapter 25 pretty well sums this up. There is talk and rumour but, for most of the white people in town, the excitement had passed. Tom was just another dead Negro,

“Maycomb was interested by the news of Tom’s death for perhaps two days; two days was enough for the information to spread through the county. “Did you hearabout?… No? Well, they say he was runnin‘ fit to beat lightnin’…” To Maycomb,Tom’s death was typical. Typical of a guy to cut and run. Typical of a guy mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw."

I should add that although there was no reaction of substance by the white population, those who really followed the trial knew the truth even if they chose to continue to hide behind their bigotry. Atticus had planted the seed of truth and nobody could take that away.

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in 1868, William Robinson, an African American, was murdered on Salt Spring Island in the British colony of British Columbia. Two other members of the island’s African American refugee community were killed in 1867 and 1868, but only Robinson’s death led to a trial. In 1869, Tshuanhusset, a Penelekut Indian, was convicted and hanged.

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