Michael A. Ross, "The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era"
English | ISBN: 0199778809 | 2014 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0199778809 | 2014 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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.