TY - BOOK ID - 78493034 TI - The great New Orleans kidnapping case PY - 2015 SN - 019939413X 0199778906 9780199778904 0199778809 9780199778805 9780199778805 PB - New York, New York DB - UniCat KW - Kidnapping KW - Trials (Kidnapping) KW - Abduction of children KW - Child abduction KW - Child snatching KW - Kidnaping KW - Offenses against the person KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Big Easy (La.) KW - Crescent City (La.) KW - La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) KW - NOLA (La.) KW - Nawlins (La.) KW - Neu Orleans (La.) KW - Nieuw Orleans (La.) KW - Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) KW - Neuva Orleans (La.) KW - Nueva Orleans (La.) KW - Nuova Orleans (La.) KW - City of New Orleans (La.) KW - Cité d'Orléans (La.) KW - Orleans Parish (La.) KW - Race relations. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78493034 AB - 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: black men now voted, held office, sat on juries, and served as policemen. Nervous white residents, certain that the end of slavery and resulting ""Africanization"" of the city would bring chaos, pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana''s twenty-eight-year old Reconstruct ER -