{"id":39815,"date":"2015-02-03T21:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39815"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:31:35","slug":"the-great-new-orleans-kidnapping-case-race-law-and-justice-in-the-reconstruction-era-tejada-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39815","title":{"rendered":"The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\/bookreview\/the-great-new-orleans-kidnapping-case-race-law-and-justice-in-the-reconstru\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Independent Review of Books<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/susantejada.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Susan Tejada<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross, Michael A., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=39812\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era<\/em><\/a> (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The case was combustible. Two mixed-race women, abetted by the son of one of them, stood accused of kidnapping a blonde, blue-eyed white baby girl in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> in 1870. How did it end? Author <a href=\"https:\/\/history.umd.edu\/users\/maross\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ross<\/a> expertly keeps readers in suspense as he weaves this true tale of crime, culture, politics, and colorful Southern characters \u2014 including a riverboat captain, \u201cmulatresses,\u201d and a precedent-setting Afro-Creole detective.<\/p>\n<p>The case began on the afternoon of June 9, 1870, when Bridgette Digby sent her 10-year-old son, Georgie, and toddler daughter Mollie outside to play under the supervision of a teenage babysitter. Two stylish, fair-skinned African-American women happened to be strolling by. As they stopped to admire Mollie, a fire broke out a few blocks away, and the excited babysitter asked Georgie to hold his sister while she ran to watch the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo bubby, I will take the baby,\u201d one of the women said. The women asked Georgie to lead them to the home of a certain neighbor. Once there, they told Georgie it was the wrong house, and then sent him to the market to buy a treat for his sister. A heart-stopping shock awaited Georgie when he came out of the market. The women were gone, and so was his baby sister&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com\/bookreview\/the-great-new-orleans-kidnapping-case-race-law-and-justice-in-the-reconstru\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review] Washington Independent Review of Books 2015-01-15 Susan Tejada When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed. 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