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Death of an Overseer : Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South

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In Might of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner used to be found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Even if a coroner’s jury to start with 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 chippie.
Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask whether the men involved within the investigation arrived at the right verdict. Part essay at the art of historical detection, part seminar at 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 during the surviving evidence themselves and come to their very own conclusions about who killed Duncan Skinner and why.

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