Gross Kali Nicole (Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Of History Professor Of African American Studies Wesleyan University)
Gross Kali Nicole (Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Of History Professor Of African American Studies Wesleyan University) - Hannah Mary Tabbs And The Disembodied Torso A Tale Of Race Sex And Violence In America - Hardcover
Gross Kali Nicole (Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Of History Professor Of African American Studies Wesleyan University) - Hannah Mary Tabbs And The Disembodied Torso A Tale Of Race Sex And Violence In America - Hardcover
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Description: Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs a married working class black woman and George Wilson a former neighbor that Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged both the crime and ensuing trial - - which spanned several months - - were featured in the national press. The trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex adultery and domestic violence in the black community to public attention. At the same time the mixed race of the victim and one of his assailants exacerbated anxieties over the purity of whiteness in the post - Reconstruction era. In Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso historian Kali Nicole Gross uses detectives notes trial and prison records local newspapers and other archival documents to reconstruct this ghastly who - done - it true crime in all its scandalous detail. In doing so she gives the crime context by analyzing it against broader evidence of police treatment of black suspects and violence within the black community. A fascinating work of historical recreation Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso is sure to captivate anyone interested in true crime adulterous love - triangles gone wrong and the racially volatile world of post - Reconstruction Philadelphia.
Title: Hannah Mary Tabbs And The Disembodied Torso A Tale Of Race Sex And Violence In America
Author(s): Gross Kali Nicole (Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Of History Professor Of African American Studies Wesleyan University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190241216
Pages: 232 Pages, 10 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/28/2016
Category: Black & Asian Studies
Description: Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs a married working class black woman and George Wilson a former neighbor that Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged both the crime and ensuing trial - - which spanned several months - - were featured in the national press. The trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex adultery and domestic violence in the black community to public attention. At the same time the mixed race of the victim and one of his assailants exacerbated anxieties over the purity of whiteness in the post - Reconstruction era. In Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso historian Kali Nicole Gross uses detectives notes trial and prison records local newspapers and other archival documents to reconstruct this ghastly who - done - it true crime in all its scandalous detail. In doing so she gives the crime context by analyzing it against broader evidence of police treatment of black suspects and violence within the black community. A fascinating work of historical recreation Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso is sure to captivate anyone interested in true crime adulterous love - triangles gone wrong and the racially volatile world of post - Reconstruction Philadelphia.
Title: Hannah Mary Tabbs And The Disembodied Torso A Tale Of Race Sex And Violence In America
Author(s): Gross Kali Nicole (Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Of History Professor Of African American Studies Wesleyan University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190241216
Pages: 232 Pages, 10 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/28/2016
Category: Black & Asian Studies
