Title The great New Orleans kidnapping case : race, law, and juctice in the reconstruction era / Michael A. Ross

Published New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover; THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING CASE: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: A KIDNAPPING IN THE BACK OF TOWN; Chapter Two:DETECTIVE JOHN BAPTISTE JOURDAIN AND HIS WORLD; Chapter Three:A TRACE OF THE MISSING CHILD?; Chapter Four:A KNOCK AT THE DIGBYS' DOOR; Chapter Five:THE ARREST OF THE ALLEGED ACCESSORIES; Chapter Six:THE WOMAN IN THE SEASIDE HAT; Chapter Seven:THE RECORDER'S COURT; Chapter Eight:A HIGHLY UNUSUAL PROCEEDING; Chapter Nine:UNVEILING THE MYSTERY; Chapter Ten:THE CASE THAT "EXCITED ALL NEW ORLEANS." AFTERWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTSNOTES; Introduction; Chapter One: A Kidnapping in the Back of Town; Chapter Two: Detective John Baptiste Jourdain and His World; Chapter Three: A Trace of the Missing Child?; Chapter Four: A Knock at the Digbys' Door; Chapter Five: The Arrest of the Alleged Accessories; Chapter Six: The Woman in the Seaside Hat; Chapter Seven: The Recorder's Court; Chapter Eight: A Highly Unusual Proceeding; Chapter Nine: Unveiling the Mystery; Chapter Ten: The Case That "Excited All New Orleans"; Afterword and Acknowledgments; INDEX Summary In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that the end of slavery and resulting ""Africanization"" of the city would bring chaos, pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana''s twenty-eight-year old Reconstruct Notes Includes index Print version record Subject Kidnapping -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies Trials (Kidnapping) -- Louisiana -- New Orleans SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. Race relations Kidnapping Trials (Kidnapping) SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199778904 0199778906 0199778809 9780199778805

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