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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
Kali Nicole Gross
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Description for Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
The narrative of the discovery of a hacked up body outside of Philadelphia leads to a police investigation and trial of a woman and man, which sheds like on post-Reconstruction America, the history of African Americans, illicit sex, and domestic violence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190241216
SKU
V9780190241216
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About Kali Nicole Gross
Kali Nicole Gross is Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is also the author of Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Her work has been featured on NPR and in The Washington Post, Jet, and Ebony.
Reviews for Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso... is very much the work of a seasoned historian. Gross skillfully weaves in deeply informed historical context on the shifting standards of policing, the association of blackness with criminality, urban race relations, the deeply rooted violence of racism, and conceptions of black women's sexuality.
Georgina Hickey, Journal of American
Georgina Hickey, Journal of American