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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era | Michael Anthony Ross
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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.
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A great look at a case in Reconstruction New Orleans. An excellent examination of not only the case but race and politics of the time.

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