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[Michael A. Ross] Ú The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era 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. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men n
Title | : | The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.37 (515 Votes) |
Asin | : | B00L4CK0NK |
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Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-07-23 |
Language | : | English |
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. 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. 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
"The Past is Never Dead" In the afterword to this absolutely gripping book, author Michael Ross describes several of the coincidences that brought him to the largely forgotten story of the kidnapping of a New Orleans toddler in June 1870 that caught the attention of a nation, as . "Amazing Look At Southern Racial Attitudes And Justice After The Civil War" according to Wilhelmina Zeitgeist. "The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era" by Michael A. Ross is NOT historical fiction but it sure reads like it. This is an amazing look back in time at justice for Afro-Americans for kidnapping after the C. History Made Fun & Easy . SundayAtDusk When I first started reading this book, I thought it was going to be a drag read, because the ARC looks like a dissertation typed up on an old typewriter. (But that's not how the final copy will look, buyers! That is just the ARC.) Surprisingly, after rea
Read The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case for the extraordinary story it tells--and the complex world it reveals." --Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age"Michael Ross's account of the 1870 New Orleans kidnapping of a white baby by two African-American women is a gripping narrative of one of the most sensational trials of the post-Civil War South. In his compelling new book Michael Ross brings Mollie back. If their experience is like my own, they will find the book fascinating, enlightening, andentertaining. The kidnapping thus serves as a lens on the possibilities and uncertainties of Reconstruction, which take on new meanings because of Ross's skillful research and master
He is the author of the prize-winning Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era.. Michael A. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Maryland
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