Death of an overseer : reopening a murder investigation from the Plantation South /
In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community co...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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