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

Hardcover • 2015 • English

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

By Michael Anthony Ross

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About the book

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 do...Show more

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9780199778805

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Hardcover

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