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From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping
history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told
through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape
our nation.
Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal
challenges and struggles that helped define the ever-shifting
identity of blacks in America. From the well-known cases of Plessy
v. Ferguson and the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings to the
more obscure trial of Joseph Hanno, an eighteenth-century free
black man accused of murdering his wife and bringing smallpox to
Boston, Weiner recounts the essential dramas of American
identity—illuminating where our conception of minority rights has
come from and where it might go. Significant and enthralling, these
are the cases that forced the courts and the country to reconsider
what it means to be black in America, and Mark Weiner illuminates
their lasting importance for our society.
Preface
Introduction: Rituals of Citizenship
Part One: Colonial Visions, 1619–1773
The Birth of Black Trials
1. Let Us Make a Tryal
(Joseph Hanno and Cotton Mather, Boston, 1721)
2. This Villainous Conspiracy
(The Great Negro Plot, New York, 1741)
3. Air Too Pure
(Somerset’s Case, London, 1772)
Part Two: White Republic, 1776–1849
National Identity on Trial
4. I Should Not Turn Her Out
(Crandall v. Connecticut, Hartford, 1833)
5. All We Want Is Make Us Free
(The Amistad,Washington, 1841)
6. Christian Witness
( Jones v. Van Zandt, Cincinnati, 1847)
Part Three: New Americans, 1850–1896
Fulcrum
7. The Law of Blood
(John Brown, Virginia, 1859)
8. Original Purity
(The Ku Klux Klan Trials, South Carolina, 1871)
9. In the Nature of Things
(The Civil Rights Cases, California, 1883, and
Plessy v. Ferguson, Louisiana, 1896)
Part Four: Uplift the Race, 1903–1970
Overcoming Jim Crow
10. Black, White, and Red
(The Scottsboro Boys, Alabama, 1931)
11. Hearts and Minds
(Brown v. Board of Education, Kansas, 1954)
12. To Die for the People
(Huey Newton, California, 1968)
Part Five: After Caste, 1991–2004
Passage
13. Confirmation
(Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, Washington, 1991)
14. Statistics and Citizenship
(Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, 2001)
Coda
Notes
Index
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