Forsaking all others : a true story of interracial sex and revenge in the 1880s South /

Forsaking all others : a true story of interracial sex and revenge in the 1880s South /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Robinson, Charles F. (Charles Frank)
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Bankston, Isaac, -- -1884. Bradford, Missouri. Bankston, Isaac, -- -1884 -- Trials, litigation, etc. Bankston, Isaac, -- -1884. Bradford, Missouri. Men, White -- Southern States -- Biography. African American women -- Southern States -- Biography. Miscegenation -- Southern States -- Case studies. Passing (Identity) -- Southern States -- Case studies. African American women. Men, White. Miscegenation. Passing (Identity) Race relations. Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Desha County (Ark.) -- Biography. Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography. Arkansas -- Desha County. Southern States. Tennessee -- Memphis. Electronic books. Biographies. Case studies. History. Trials, litigation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261587

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ISBN:	9781572337404 1572337400 9781572337244 1572337249
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Robinson, Charles F. (Charles Frank). Forsaking all others. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010 9781572337244

Table of 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.