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Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead : The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson /
In 1902, on a prairie in southwest Louisiana, six members of a farming family are found murdered. Albert Edwin Batson, a white, itinerant farm worker, rapidly descends from likely suspect to likely lynching victim as people in the surrounding countryside lusted for vengeance. In a territory where th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. The Horse Trader; 2. Scene of the Crime; 3. Coroner's Inquest; 4. Cajun Prairies; 5. Welsh; 6. The Arrest; 7. Trial by Newspaper; 8. Lynching Fears; 9. The Dead Tramp; 10. Another Crime; 11. Indictment and Plea; 12. A Mother's View; 13. Confusion, Confrontation; 14. The Case Is On; 15. Batson's Turn; 16. Reaching a Verdict; 17. A Ray of Hope and an Appeal; 18. To Court Again; 19. Resignation; 20. Enter Dobson; 21. Indignation and False Hope; 22. Last Chance; 23. No escape, No Reprieve; 24. To the Gallows.
- Afterword: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?Appendix A: Chronology; Appendix B: Cast of Characters; Appendix C: Batson Letters; Appendix D: The Batson Ballad; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.