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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
- Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case af Michael Alan Ross, 9780190674120
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Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780190674120
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0190674121
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Udg. Dato:
2 nov 2017
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 23,1 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
2 nov 2017
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

- Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Engelsk
Paperback 2017
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In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that the end of slavery and resulting "Africanization" of the city would bring chaos, pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana''s twenty-eight-year old Reconstruction governor, Henry Clay Warmoth, hoping to use the investigation of the kidnapping to validate his newly integrated police force to the highly suspicious white population of New Orleans, saw to it that the city''s best Afro-Creole detective, John Baptiste Jourdain, was put on the case, and offered a huge reward for the return of Mollie Digby and the capture of her kidnappers. When the Associated Press sent the story out on the wire, newspaper readers around the country began to follow the New Orleans mystery. Eventually, police and prosecutors put two strikingly beautiful Afro-Creole women on trial for the crime, and interest in the case exploded as a tense courtroom drama unfolded.In The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, Michael Ross offers the first full account of this event that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations. Tracing the crime from the moment it was committed through the highly publicized investigation and sensationalized trial that followed, all the while chronicling the public outcry and escalating hysteria as news and rumors surrounding the crime spread, Ross paints a vivid picture of the Reconstruction-era South and the complexities and possibilities that faced the newly integrated society. Leading readers into smoke-filled concert saloons, Garden District drawing rooms, sweltering courthouses, and squalid prisons, Ross brings this fascinating era back to life. A stunning work of historical recreation, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case is sure to captivate anyone interested in true crime, the Civil War and its aftermath, and the history of New Orleans and the American South.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780190674120
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0190674121
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 nov 2017
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 23,1 x 2,3
Oplagsdato:
2 nov 2017
Forfatter(e):
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