The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era

Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize of the Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association.

Winner of the New Orleans Public Library Foundation Choice Award for Non-Fiction.

In June 1870, the residents of the city of New Orleans were already on edge when two African American women kidnapped seventeen-month-old Mollie Digby from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down...