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 the locals were coping with the opening of the prairies by the railroad and the disorienting, disruptive advances of the rice and oil industries into what was predominantly cattle country, Batson, an outsider, made an ideal scapegoat. Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead tells the story of the legal trials of Batson for the murder of six members of the Ear…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Miller, Danielle
- ISBN: 978-1-62674-402-8
- EAN: 9781626744028
- Produktnummer: 20524529
- Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'839 KB
Über den Autor
Jim Bradshaw, Washington, Louisiana, retired as an editor and writer for the Lafayette Daily Advertiser in 2008, but he continues to write his popular C'est Vrai column for syndication. Author of three previous books on Louisiana, he has written for newspapers and magazines for more than forty years, and his columns have received national and regional awards.
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