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Author Robinson, Charles F. (Charles Frank)

Title Forsaking all others : a true story of interracial sex and revenge in the 1880s South / Charles F. Robinson.

Publication Info. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010]
©2010

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mississippi on his mind : Isaac Bankston's formative years -- The confluence across the river -- In search of their place -- From Memphis to marriage and misery -- Color line justice -- A quest for honor.
Summary An intensely dramatic true story, Forsaking All Others recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted, in defiance of. society & rsquo;s laws and conventions, to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge. From the mid-1870s to the early 1880s, Isaac Bankston was the proud sheriff of Desha County, Arkansas, a man so prominent and popular that he won five consecutive terms in office. Although he was married wi.
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Subject Bankston, Isaac, -1884.
Bankston, Isaac, -1884.
Bradford, Missouri.
Bradford, Missouri.
Bankston, Isaac, -1884 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Subject Men, White -- Southern States -- Biography.
Men, White.
Southern States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American women -- Southern States -- Biography.
African American women.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Miscegenation -- Southern States -- Case studies.
Miscegenation.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Passing (Identity) -- Southern States -- Case studies.
Passing (Identity)
Desha County (Ark.) -- Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography.
Indexed Term "Multi-User"
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Robinson, Charles F. (Charles Frank). Forsaking all others. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010 9781572337244 (DLC) 2010019339 (OCoLC)624546917
ISBN 9781572337404 (electronic book)
1572337400 (electronic book)
9781572337244
1572337249