Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso, a tale of race, sex, and violence in America, Kali Nicole Gross
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso, a tale of race, sex, and violence in America, Kali Nicole Gross
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-211) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso
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bibliography
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907657561
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Kali Nicole Gross
Sub title
a tale of race, sex, and violence in America
Summary
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 case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the black community to public attention. At the same time, the mixed race of the victim and one of his assailants exacerbated anxieties over the purity of whiteness in the post-Reconstruction era
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Prologue -- Handle with care -- The woman found -- To do him bodily harm -- Wavy hair and nearly white skin -- Held for trial -- A most revolting deed -- Epilogue
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- Family violence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Case studies
- True crime stories
- Tabbs, Hannah Mary
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Racially mixed people -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Murder -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Case studies
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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- Family violence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Case studies
- True crime stories
- Tabbs, Hannah Mary
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Racially mixed people -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Murder -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Case studies
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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