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

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

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

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.