Title Death of an overseer : reopening a murder investigation from the Plantation South / Michael Wayne

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents On History as Common Sense; 1 Investigation and Verdict; 2 The Evidence; 3 The Evidence Reconsidered; 4 Slavery; 5 The Question of a Frame-Up; 6 Black Images, White Minds; 7 Democracy and Justice; 8 In Search of John McCallin; An Epitaph for Duncan Skinner; APPENDIX I: First Draft and Fragment of a Second Draft of the Letter from Alexander Farrar to Henry Drake; APPENDIX II: Court Records from the Trial of Henderson, Reuben, and Anderson; APPENDIX III: Additional Materials in the Newspapers Relating to the Trial and Execution of Henderson, Reuben, and Anderson APPENDIX IV: Additional Archival MaterialEssay on Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Note to Readers; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y Summary In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask whether the men involved in the investigation arrived at the right verdict. Part essay on the art of historical detection, part seminar on the history of slavery and the Old South, Death of an Overseer is, above all, a murder mystery-a murder mystery that allows readers to sift through the surviving evidence themselves and come to their own conclusions about who killed Duncan Skinner and why Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject McCallin, John, 1812 or 1813- SUBJECT McCallin, John, 1812 or 1813- fast Subject Murder -- Mississippi -- Adams County -- History -- Case studies Murder -- Mississippi -- Adams County -- Historiography Murder -- Investigation -- Mississippi -- Adams County -- History -- Case studies Murder -- Investigation -- Mississippi -- Adams County -- Historiography TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General. Murder Murder -- Investigation Race relations SUBJECT Adams County (Miss.) -- History Adams County (Miss.) -- Race relations Subject Mississippi -- Adams County Genre/Form Case studies History Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book ISBN 0195302516 9780195302516 9780195140033 0195140036 9780195140040 0195140044 128048134X 9781280481345

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