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Forsaking all others : a true story of interracial sex and revenge in the 1880s South / Charles F. Robinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781572337404
  • 1572337400
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forsaking all others.DDC classification:
  • 306.84/608996073076819 22
LOC classification:
  • F220.A1 R63 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Mississippi on his mind : Isaac Bankston's formative years -- The confluence across the river -- In search of their place -- From Memphis to marriage and misery -- Color line justice -- A quest for honor.
Summary: An intensely dramatic true story, Forsaking All Others recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted, in defiance of. society & rsquo;s laws and conventions, to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge. From the mid-1870s to the early 1880s, Isaac Bankston was the proud sheriff of Desha County, Arkansas, a man so prominent and popular that he won five consecutive terms in office. Although he was married wi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mississippi on his mind : Isaac Bankston's formative years -- The confluence across the river -- In search of their place -- From Memphis to marriage and misery -- Color line justice -- A quest for honor.

An intensely dramatic true story, Forsaking All Others recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted, in defiance of. society & rsquo;s laws and conventions, to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge. From the mid-1870s to the early 1880s, Isaac Bankston was the proud sheriff of Desha County, Arkansas, a man so prominent and popular that he won five consecutive terms in office. Although he was married wi.

Print version record.

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