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

The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
ISBN-10
0199778809
ISBN-13
9780199778805
Category
History
Pages
309
Language
English
Published
2014-10-02
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Michael Anthony Ross

Description

Recounts a famous kidnapping that took place in New Orleans in 1870, in which a seventeen-month-old white child was taken by two African-American women, and the resulting public hysteria that led to racial tensions, political divisions, and false accusations and arrests.

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