Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso : a tale of race, sex, and violence in America /

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso : a tale of race, sex, and violence in America /

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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 whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking...

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Main Author: Gross, Kali N., 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Tabbs, Hannah Mary.
1800-1899
Murder > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Family violence > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Racially mixed people > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
African American women > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Family violence.
Murder.
Race relations.
Domestic violence > Philadelphia (Pa.) > Case Studies.
African Americans > Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions.
African American women > Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Racially mixed people > Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.
United States > Race relations > History.
True crime stories.
Case studies.
True crime literature.
History.

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Call Number: HV6534.P5 G76 2016
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