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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case irresistibly combines intrigue, atmosphere, and scholarly command of the Reconstruction Era—shown here to be a period of promise (bought dearly in the Civil War) too soon yielding to the retrograde actions of Jim Crow. But was our nation’s biggest missed opportunity—to consolidate the gains of the first major civil…
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Was this a tweet from yesterday?
“Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists…but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.” –Lafcadio Hearn, Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio…