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S'està carregant… Forsakende Ross Howell Jr.
Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  skstiles612 | Dec 4, 2015 | 
 “Forsaken” is the fair trial Virginia Christian never had, in which the innocent are justly treated, the guilty finally charged.  A fast-paced if uneven depiction of racial injustice in the segregated South.
"In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts, reflecting the arc of history in characters large and small, in events local and global. Charlie falls in love with Harriet, a girl orphaned by the murder; meets Virgie's blind attorney George Fields, a former slave; and encounters physician Walter Plecker, a state official who pursues racial purity laws later emulated in Nazi Germany"--Jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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This book was the story of Virginia Christian, the youngest African American female to be executed. Virginia Christian was put on trial and then found guilty of killing the white woman for whom she did laundry. A white reporter named Charlie Mears covered the story. This story takes place from his perspective. Virgie was only 17 when she was executed in Virginia’s electric chair. They waited until the day after she turned 17 to perform the execution. The author used actual court documents, actual stories from the newspaper to tell this story.
There was so much tension throughout the book. My initial reaction was shock that they would just decide she deserved to die because she was African American. This is an eye opener whe it comes to showing the lopsided rules and laws when it came to dealing with African Americans
I really enjoyed this book. I enjoy anytime we can take a look back in time and what really happened. I definitely will recommend this book to those I know enjoy reading historical fiction. You must read the book then truthfully ask yourself has much really changed today? (