The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 November 2017
- ISBN 9780190674120
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 231x155x22 mm
- Weight 458 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 hts 0
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Short description:
In this stunning work of historical recreation, Michael Ross uses a kidnapping investigation and trial that electrified the South in the summer of 1870 to offer important new insights into the complexities and possibilities of the Reconstruction era.
MoreLong description:
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 down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that the end of slavery and resulting "Africanization" of the city would bring chaos, pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana's twenty-eight-year old Reconstruction governor, Henry Clay Warmoth, hoping to use the investigation of the kidnapping to validate his newly integrated police force to the highly suspicious white population of New Orleans, saw to it that the city's best Afro-Creole detective, John Baptiste Jourdain, was put on the case, and offered a huge reward for the return of Mollie Digby and the capture of her kidnappers. When the Associated Press sent the story out on the wire, newspaper readers around the country began to follow the New Orleans mystery. Eventually, police and prosecutors put two strikingly beautiful Afro-Creole women on trial for the crime, and interest in the case exploded as a tense courtroom drama unfolded.
In The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, Michael Ross offers the first full account of this event that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations. Tracing the crime from the moment it was committed through the highly publicized investigation and sensationalized trial that followed, all the while chronicling the public outcry and escalating hysteria as news and rumors surrounding the crime spread, Ross paints a vivid picture of the Reconstruction-era South and the complexities and possibilities that faced the newly integrated society. Leading readers into smoke-filled concert saloons, Garden District drawing rooms, sweltering courthouses, and squalid prisons, Ross brings this fascinating era back to life.
A stunning work of historical recreation, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case is sure to captivate anyone interested in true crime, the Civil War and its aftermath, and the history of New Orleans and the American South.
As the resurgence of white supremacy and segregation loom in the background, Ross's richly detailed account keeps readers engaged -- and guessing.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch 1 A Kidnapping in the Back of Town
Ch 2 Detective John Baptiste Jourdain and His World
Ch 3 A Trace of a Missing Child?
Ch 4 A Knock at the Digbys' Door
Ch 5 The Arrest of the Alleged Accessories
Ch 6 The Woman in the Seaside Hat
Ch 7 The Recorder's Court
Ch 8 A Highly Unusual Proceeding
Ch 9 Unveiling the Mystery
Ch 10 The Case "That Excited All New Orleans"
Afterword and Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
