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The great New Orleans kidnapping case : race, law, and justice in the Reconstruction era / Michael A. Ross.
Van Pelt Library HV6602.N49 R67 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidnapping--Louisiana--New Orleans--Case studies.
- Kidnapping.
- Trials (Kidnapping)--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Trials (Kidnapping).
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century.
- Race relations.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- A kidnapping in the back of town
- Detective John Baptiste Jourdain and his world
- A trace of the missing child?
- A knock at the Digbys' door
- The arrest of the alleged accessories
- The woman in the seaside hat
- The Recorder's Court
- A highly unusual proceeding
- Unveiling the mystery
- The case "that excited all New Orleans".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199778809
- 9780199778805
- OCLC:
- 871228479
- Publisher Number:
- 99960549018
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