Setting the scene of New Orleans during Reconstruction

Setting the scene of New Orleans during Reconstruction:

The Reconstruction era was a critical moment in the history of American race relations. Though Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made great strides towards equality, the aftermath was a not-quite newly integrated society, greatly conflicted and rife with racial tension.

This is the world in which my book begins.  It was this tension that made an ordinary kidnapping and the subsequent trial national news.  You’ll see how it all unfolds on October 14th when THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING CASE: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era is published.