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What did ida
b. wells suggest was the real purpose of lynching in the south?

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According to Ida B. Wells, the real purpose of lynching in the South was to terrorize and spread fear among blacks in order to suppress them. It was used as a way of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social and political spheres.

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