Title A second reckoning : race, injustice, and the last hanging in Annapolis / Scott D. Seligman

Published [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Part 1. 1917. "A Love Match, Pure and Simple" -- "Aren't You Going to Come and Kiss Me?" -- "Altogether Separate and Different Lives" -- "All Annapolis Is Shocked" -- "Not the Faintest Clue, Theory, or Speculation" -- "The Woman Sherlock Holmes" -- "The More Delicate Hand of a Woman" -- "His Name Is Snowden" -- "We Have Got This Negro Dead Right" -- "A Maze of Circumstantial Evidence" -- "I Ain't Scared" -- "Guilty Men and Women Do Not Always Confess" -- "Fairer for the Man, the County, the State" -- Part 2. 1918. "Most Heinous and Diabolical" -- "Could Not Have Come from a White Person" -- "It Was Ten Minutes after Eleven When I Got Up" -- "The Man Shoved a Gun against My Head" -- "The Homes of White Women Must Be Protected" -- "Defending Snowden Is Defending the Black People of Maryland" -- "We Have Found No Reversible Error" -- Part 3. 1919. "I Forgive Their False Oaths" -- "This Is No Case for Mercy" -- "You Can Appeal to Me until Doomsday" -- "I Could Not Leave This World with a Lie in My Mouth" -- Part 4. 2000. "Race Is All Over This Case" -- Part 5. 2001-3. "There's Great Jubilation in the Community" Summary A Second Reckoning tells the story of the 1917 murder that led to the last hanging in Annapolis, Maryland, and makes an appeal for posthumous justice, especially where racial prejudice may have tainted a case Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Snowden, John, 1890-1919 -- Trials, litigation, etc SUBJECT Snowden, John, 1890-1919 -- Trials, litigation, etc Subject Trials (Murder) -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- 20th century Hanging -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- 20th century Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History African Americans -- Civil rights -- History Pardon -- United States Evidence, Circumstantial -- United States African Americans -- Civil rights Discrimination in criminal justice administration Evidence, Circumstantial Hanging Pardon Race relations Trials (Murder) SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History Subject Maryland -- Baltimore County United States Genre/Form History Trials, litigation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781640124875 164012487X 9781640124868 1640124861

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