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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
By Cox, Karen L.
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- 9781469635033 9781469635040
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on November 1, 2017 | social sciences
In August 1932, the city of Natchez, MS, was roiled by the brutal murder of Jennie Merrill, the scion of a former Confederate family whose feud with her neighbors was legendary. Richard Dana and Olivia Dockery, the neighbors, were also former Confederate aristocracy but had been reduced to penury and living in a mansion with their livestock. They were immediately arrested, but suspicion soon fell on George Pearls, an African American resident recently ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
