A Second Reckoning
Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 October 2021
- Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards
- ISBN 9781640124653
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 602 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 photographs, 3 illustrations, 1 chronology, index 192
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Long description:
2022 IPPY Silver Medal
2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for History
2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner
2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book Fest
A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried-through legal shenanigans-by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-raising, last-minute appeals to spare his life, Snowden was hanged for the crime. But decades after his death, thanks to tireless efforts by interested citizens and family members who believed him a victim of a “legal lynching,” Snowden was pardoned posthumously by the governor of Maryland in 2001.
A Second Reckoning uses Snowden’s case to bring posthumous pardons into the national conversation about amends for past racial injustices. Scott D. Seligman argues that the repeal of racist laws and policies must be augmented by reckoning with America’s judicial past, especially in cases in which prejudice may have tainted procedures or perverted verdicts, evidence of bias survives, and a constituency exists for a second look. Seligman illustrates the profound effects such acts of clemency have on the living and ends with a siren call for a reexamination of such cases on the national level by the Department of Justice, which officially refuses to consider them.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Dramatis Personae
A Note on Language
Prologue
Part 1. 1917
1. “A Love Match, Pure and Simple”
2. “Aren’t You Going to Come and Kiss Me?”
3. “Altogether Separate and Different Lives”
4. “All Annapolis Is Shocked”
5. “Not the Faintest Clue, Theory, or Speculation”
6. “The Woman Sherlock Holmes”
7. “The More Delicate Hand of a Woman”
8. “His Name Is Snowden”
9. “We Have Got This Negro Dead Right”
10. “A Maze of Circumstantial Evidence”
11. “I Ain’t Scared”
12. “Guilty Men and Women Do Not Always Confess”
13. “Fairer for the Man, the County, the State”
Part 2. 1918
14. “Most Heinous and Diabolical”
15. “Could Not Have Come from a White Person”
16. “It Was Ten Minutes after Eleven When I Got Up”
17. “The Man Shoved a Gun against My Head”
18. “The Homes of White Women Must Be Protected”
19. “Defending Snowden Is Defending the Black People of Maryland”
20. “We Have Found No Reversible Error”
Part 3. 1919
21. “I Forgive Their False Oaths”
22. “This Is No Case for Mercy”
23. “You Can Appeal to Me until Doomsday”
24. “I Could Not Leave This World with a Lie in My Mouth”
Part 4. 2000
25. “Race Is All Over This Case”
Part 5. 2001–3
26. “There’s Great Jubilation in the Community”
Afterword
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Index
