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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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