The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, And Justice In The Reconstruction Era

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.

• | Author: Michael Anthony Ross
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 14, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199778809
• | ISBN-13: 9780199778805