Author: Alan G. Gauthreaux Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476672164 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 203
Book Description
Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana--where "unwritten law" justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs. Stories include the 1907 kidnapping of seven-year-old Walter Lamana by the New Orleans "Black Hand," the 1912 acquittal of Zea McRee (a woman of "good reputation") in Opelousas, and the 1934 trial and execution of Shreveport's infamous "Butterfly Man."
Author: Alan G. Gauthreaux Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476630836 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 203
Book Description
Historian Alan G. Gauthreaux chronicles 12 homicide cases from late 1800s and early 1900s Louisiana--where "unwritten law" justified jilted women who killed their paramours, and police took measures to protect defendants from lynch mobs. Stories include the 1907 kidnapping of seven-year-old Walter Lamana by the New Orleans "Black Hand," the 1912 acquittal of Zea McRee (a woman of "good reputation") in Opelousas, and the 1934 trial and execution of Shreveport's infamous "Butterfly Man."
Author: Mike Donald Publisher: Inkshares ISBN: 1947848070 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 424
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Do you love a conspiracy? Detective Chandler Travis does. Travis’s great-grandfather was a cub reporter when Jack the Ripper terrorized London. His family have been obsessed with the case ever since. And then one day Travis gets a call that makes him question everything. Could his ancestors be behind one of the greatest conspiracies of our time? When the remains of Jack the Ripper’s first five victims are discovered in present-day Louisiana, an English detective and a local sheriff form an unlikely alliance to unravel the mystery... and find themselves caught up in a modern-day conspiracy.
Author: Chretien Léa Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 60
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In book two of this historical saga, the elderly Louise recounts her grandmother Josephine's struggles to run the family plantation in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Josephine tries to raise her son Jean to be nothing like his grandfather and uncle, whose tyranny over their slaves and the women of the family forced Josephine and her mother to resort to the services of a voodoo priestess from New Orleans. But when Jean falls for a slave named Celeste, Josephine's tolerance and values are put to the test.
Author: Alan G. Gauthreaux Publisher: TouchPoint Press ISBN: Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Southern Evil: Tales of Revenge, Greed, Lust, and Racism From the Heart of Dixie is a compilation of historical crime profiles written in a popular history form for the true (historical) crime genre. Written by experienced historian and author, Alan G. Gauthreaux, Southern Evil offers more than just documentation; the manuscript maintains an historical as well as societal record of the more notorious murders and murderers from the southern United States. The author composed this manuscript with the mission to maintain the dignity of the victims, as well as those who may, or may not, have been falsely accused.
Author: Chretien Léa Publisher: Europe Comics ISBN: Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 59
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Louisiana, 1961. The elderly Louise shoos away questions from granddaughters eager to know more about the family's distant past. But what is she hiding? As she unburdens herself to Hazel, the maid, memories and legends come pouring out from the years following the birth of the American nation: a sugarcane plantation, an abusive patriarch, a fearful wife, a headstrong daughter, and a mysterious voodoo priestess. What other dark secrets lurk, long-repressed, in the recesses of history? Léa Chrétien and Gontran Toussaint deliver a vivid, atmospheric story of generations of strong women and the secret things they do to survive, from the Civil War to the civil rights era.
Author: Sarah E. Gardner Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 9780807857670 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
"Gardner's reading of a wide range of published and unpublished texts recovers a multifaceted vision of the South. For example, during the war, while its outcome was not yet a foregone conclusion, women's writings sometimes reflected loyalty and optimism; at other times, they revealed doubts and a wavering resolve. According to Gardner, it was only in the aftermath of defeat that a more unified vision of the southern cause emerged. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, white women - who remained deeply loyal to their southern roots - were raising fundamental questions about the meaning of southern womanhood in the modern era."--BOOK JACKET.
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