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Excerpt from Trial of Harry Crawford Black: For the Killing of Col. W. W. McKaig, Jr., In the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, Sitting at Frederick City, April 11, 1871 Generally around criminal prosecution gather all the degrading influences of human life. Within the prisoner's box you look for those upon whose countenance is stamped with heavy impress the evidences of crime and degredation. You listen to the case to be tried with the expectation of hearing details that sicken the heart, and tend to demoralize social law. Especially is this true of the trial of capital cases. In these, the evidence is usually of the most revolting character, marking step by step the decline of the wretched prisoner from the paths of virtue and well doing, where, perhaps, his feet had first been placed by a kind father and loving mother, into the pools of vice and wickedness until completely enveloped in their slimey depths. But there has been within the history of criminal jurisprudence some few exceptions to the general rule; some few cases tried where the court proceedings and the surroundings of the case have been in a great measure softened by the extenuating circumstances that induced the commission of the crime and the social and moral standing of the prisoner on trial. But none within the whole range of judicial investigation where such has been the case in as great a degree as in the trial that forms the subject-matter of these pages. The cases referred to are within the knowledge of all who have watched the progress of events in our land, and are doubtless familiar to nearly all who will peruse this work, and the difference between this and those can be easily marked by following a recitation of the facts in the remarkable and interesting trial here spread before them. Harry Crawford Black, who occupied the prisoner's place, and was on trial for bis life in this case, was born in the city of Cumberland, Alleghany county, Maryland, in May, 1846, and is consequently twenty-four years of age, but the weight of years have rested lightly on his brow, and he does not look as though he had yet crossed the threshold from youth into manhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.
This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.
In Killing Hope, William Blum, author of the bestselling Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, provides a devastating and comprehensive account of America's covert and overt military actions in the world, all the way from China in the 1940s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and - in this updated edition - beyond. Is the United States, as it likes to claim, a global force for democracy? Killing Hope shows the answer to this question to be a resounding 'no'.