Condemned for Love in Old Virginia
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Condemned for Love in Old Virginia

The Lynching of Arthur Jordan

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Condemned for Love in Old Virginia

The Lynching of Arthur Jordan

About this book

When romance was met with murder… Arthur Jordan and Elvira Corder were young and unafraid, but their love was doomed. He was black, she was white, and this was Virginia in 1880. When Elvira became pregnant, the couple fled Fauquier County to live in Maryland. But her father found them and recruited neighbors to help kidnap them. Four nights later, a mob dragged Arthur from the county jail in Warrenton and lynched him. Elvira, taken to a hotel in Williamsport, Maryland, was never heard from again. Stories of lynching are all too common in the postbellum South, but this one tells a unique tale of a couple who were willing to sacrifice everything to be together--and did. Author Jim Hall tells a classic tale of forbidden love, one of hope crushed by hate.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction, by Claudine L. Ferrell
  9. 1. We Want Jordan
  10. 2. Not a Traditional Romance
  11. 3. Not One but Two Letters
  12. 4. Voluntary and Clandestine
  13. 5. Quiet Confidence
  14. 6. Family of Slave Owners
  15. 7. Royal Heritage
  16. 8. History of Hate
  17. 9. Same Old Racket
  18. 10. Scripted Drama
  19. 11. Unlikely Chronicler
  20. 12. Murder Excused
  21. 13. Turn My Back, Shut My Eyes
  22. 14. No Trace of Elvira
  23. 15. Epilogue
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. About the Author