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A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial

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“[Makes] history, with all its messiness, ugliness, or even humanity, come vividly alive.”―Chicago Tribune

It is 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 on the subject of women we’d never another way know: a devout (and pregnant) mother of nine; every other hard-working mother (also of nine); and her plucky, quick-tempered daughter. All claim to be innocent. With the danger of lynching high, can they get justice?

Lebsock takes us deep into this contentious, ceaselessly surprising world, where blacks struggle to carry on to their post-Civil War gains against a rising tide of white privilege. A sensation in its own time, this case offers the up to date reader a riveting encounter with a South within the throes of change. 27 b/w illustrations

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