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by Michael Wayne

Author: Michael Wayne
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 8, 2001)
Language: English
Pages: 272
ePub: 1904 kb
Fb2: 1417 kb
Rating: 4.1
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Category: History
Subcategory: Americas
And I was right, but Wayne tries so hard to steer us from the obvious that Farrar arranged and benefited from the murder and is responsible for the hanging of three slaves during his noble pursuit of justice. It's bizarre to me as to why it's so important for the author to convince us that Farrar has absolutely nothing at all with Skinner's murder.
Home Browse Books Book details, Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder. In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter.
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Historians and the general reader alike will find this book hard to put down.
Death of an Overseer : Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South. A riveting murder mystery involving race and sex in the Old South, "Death of an Overseer" is equally fascinating for what it reveals about the historian's craft. Besides this, it is beautifully written. Historians and the general reader alike will find this book hard to put down.
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Wayne, Michael (2001). Death of an Overseer:Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South. Oxford University Press. p. 231. ISBN 0195140036. Billings, Warren M. (January 1977). Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 85 (1). Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
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