> Town squares used to be small so that mobs couldn't get too big. See, that's the sort of thing that must be terribly difficult to write, knowing that thousan

> Town squares used to be small so that mobs couldn't get too big. See, that's the sort of thing that must be terribly difficult to write, knowing that thousands were tortured, maimed, and killed by small-town mobs in the US: http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/ http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/