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 October 2014
- ISBN 9780199778805
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 234x160x25 mm
- Weight 567 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.
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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. The old racial order had been turned upside down and black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents fearing impeding chaos pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe now that slavery had ended and the South had been "Africanized." Newspapers opposed to Louisiana's biracial Reconstruction government stoked those fears by reprinting rumors that the stolen Digby baby had been sacrificed in a Voodoo ceremony on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
Louisiana's twenty-eight year old Reconstruction Governor Henry Clay Warmoth, in turn, hoped to use the kidnapping to prove that his newly integrated police force, trained in the latest investigative techniques from Boston and New York, could solve the crime. He offered a huge reward for the return of Mollie Digby and the capture of her kidnappers, and his police chief put his best Afro-Creole detective, the dashing Jean Baptiste Jourdain, on the case. The Associated Press sent the story out on the wire and newspaper readers around the country began to follow the New Orleans mystery. Leads poured in from across the Gulf Coast and from as far north as Ohio and New York, and Jourdain became the first black detective in the United States to make national news. Interest in the story only grew when police and prosecutors put two strikingly beautiful Afro-Creole women on trial for the crime and a tense courtroom drama unfolded against the backdrop of a yellow fever epidemic and the momentous events of Reconstruction in the South.
A stunning work of historical recreation, Michael Ross's The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case is the first full account ever written about an event that electrified the South at one of the most critical moments in the history of American race relations. Ross brings the era back to life, leading readers into smoke filled concert saloons, Garden District drawing rooms, sweltering courthouses, and squalid prisons, and he uses the Digby kidnapping, investigation, and trial to offer important new insights into the complexities and possibilities of the Reconstruction era.
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
