Ross Michael A. The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era 9780190674120

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Автор: Ross Michael A.
Название: The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
ISBN: 9780190674120
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

Преступность и криминология

ISBN-10: 0190674121
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 01.09.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 228 x 149 x 18
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize of the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association.
Winner of the New Orleans Public Library Foundation Choice Award for Non-Fiction.
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. Louisianas 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 citys 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.

The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Ross Michael A.