Hellhounds on my trial

Self as Self. Keb' Mo' Self as Self. David A. Stewart Self as Self. Rob Wasserman Self as Self. Bob Weir Self as Self. Chris Whitley Self as Self. Robert Mugge. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. User reviews 1 Review. Top review. This is a great documentary on the life of Robert Johnson.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. It gave some good in-site into his life and death. There have been so many rumors about RJ and this put some of the myth to rest by separating fact and fiction. I knew there was a Robert Johnson, Jr. There was also a stepson, who gave some great input into his life. The Blues researchers and musicians who focused on his music were great to listen to also. I sincerely recommend it for any Blues enthusiast. Details Edit. Release date January 21, United States.

United States. Hellhounds on My Trail. However, he was eventually captured, returned to Nodena, and burned at the stake after local whites intercepted a letter written by Lowery. However, the fugitive always fears that he will be lynched. It also highlights grassroots responses to lynching. For example, in , Steve Green, a black tenant farmer, allegedly shot and killed William Sidel, a white planter nearby Marion, Arkansas.

Miraculously, Green escaped the pursuing posse and made his way to Chicago. Blacks understood that they were trapped in a society that presumed their guilt. For example, historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage argued that, in turn-of-the-century Georgia, forty-eight percent of blacks captured by posses never reached legal authorities and of those turned over to legal authorities twenty-eight percent were lynched before they were placed in jail.

Given these options, blacks fled in order to save themselves from white mob violence. Karlos K. Notes Patricia R. Ibid, Ibid, 6—7. Guralnick, Searching for Robert Johnson , 23; Eric Sackheim, ed. Ibid, 24— Jefferson, Blind Lemon. Sankheim, The Blues Line , Little Rock Arkansas Gazette 21 January p.

See Memphis Commercial Appeal 22 November p.