[PDF.34cc] A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial

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 | #1181613 in Books |  2003-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.41 x6.44 x9.46l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Putting Southern Justice on Trial|By Rebecca S Dobrinski|In A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial, Suzanne Lebsock put her research skills to the test in order to bring to light the still unsolved case of the 1895 murder of Lucy Jane Pollard, a white woman from Lunenberg, Virginia. Although a compelling story, the tale begged the reader to ask: What makes this|From Publishers Weekly|In recounting a 1895 murder investigation and trial in Lunenberg County, Va., Lebsock (The Free Women of Petersburg) meticulously brings to life a lost episode of a small, segregated Southern town and frames it against the backdrop of raci

It's 1895 in Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with an ax. Suspicion soon falls on a young black sawmill hand, who tries to flee the county. Captured, he implicates three women, accusing them of plotting the murder and wielding the ax. In vivid courtroom scenes, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Suzanne Lebsock recounts their dramatic trials and brings us close to women we would never otherwise know: a devout (and pregnant) mother of nine; another...

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