Michael A Ross

The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780190674120
• ISBN-10: 0190674121
• Artikelnr.: 47970358

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He is the author of the prize-winning Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch 1 A Kidnapping in the Back of Town
Ch 2 Detective John Baptiste Jourdain and His World
Ch 3 A Trace of a Missing Child?
Ch 4 A Knock at the Digbys' Door
Ch 5 The Arrest of the Alleged Accessories
Ch 6 The Woman in the Seaside Hat
Ch 7 The Recorder's Court
Ch 8 A Highly Unusual Proceeding
Ch 9 Unveiling the Mystery
Ch 10 The Case "That Excited All New Orleans"
Afterword and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index