Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

Ross, Michael Alan (Professor of History, University of Maryland)

Oxford University Press Inc

11/2017

320

Mole

Inglês

9780190674120

15 a 20 dias

In this stunning work of historical recreation, Michael Ross uses a kidnapping investigation and trial that electrified the South in the summer of 1870 to offer important new insights into the complexities and possibilities of the Reconstruction era.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: A Kidnapping in the Back of Town Chapter 2: Detective John Baptiste Jourdain and His World Chapter 3: A Trace of a Missing Child? Chapter 4: A Knock at the Digbys' Door Chapter 5: The Arrest of the Alleged Accessories Chapter 6: The Woman in the Seaside Hat Chapter 7: The Recorder's Court Chapter 8: A Highly Unusual Proceeding Chapter 9: Unveiling the Mystery Chapter 10: The Case "That Excited All New Orleans" Afterword and Acknowledgments Notes Index
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