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Forsaken : a novel /

In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howell, Ross, Jr (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montgomery, Alabama : NewSouth Books, [2016]
Subjects:
Christian, Virginia, > 1894 or 1895-1912 > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Virginia > Hampton > Fiction.
Reporters and reporting > Virginia > Hampton > Fiction.
African Americans > Virginia > Hampton > Fiction.
Hampton (Va.) > Fiction.
Virginia > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Fields, George Washington, > 1854-1932 > Fiction.
Historical fiction.

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