TY - GEN T1 - Death of an overseer : reopening a murder investigation from the Plantation South A1 - Wayne, Michael, 1947- LA - English PP - Oxford ; New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2001 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm58995083 AB - In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later, Michael Wayne has reopened the case to ask whether the men involved in the investigation arrived at the right verdict. Part essay on the art of historical detection, part seminar on the history of slavery and the Old South, Death of an Overseer is, above all, a murder mystery-a murder mystery that allows readers to sift through the surviving evidence themselves and come to their own conclusions about who killed Duncan Skinner and why. OP - 257 CN - HV6534.A33 W38 2001eb SN - 0195302516 SN - 9780195302516 SN - 9780195140033 SN - 0195140036 SN - 9780195140040 SN - 0195140044 SN - 128048134X SN - 9781280481345 KW - McCallin, John, : 1812 or 1813- KW - Murder : Mississippi : Adams County : History : Case studies. KW - Murder : Mississippi : Adams County : Historiography. KW - Murder : Investigation : Mississippi : Adams County : History : Case studies. KW - Murder : Investigation : Mississippi : Adams County : Historiography. KW - Adams County (Miss.) : History. KW - Adams County (Miss.) : Race relations. KW - Meurtre : Mississippi : Adams : Histoire : Études de cas. KW - Meurtre : Mississippi : Adams : Historiographie. KW - Meurtre : Enquêtes : Mississippi : Adams : Histoire : Études de cas. KW - Meurtre : Enquêtes : Mississippi : Adams : Historiographie. KW - TRUE CRIME : Murder : General. KW - Murder KW - Murder : Investigation KW - Race relations KW - Mississippi : Adams County KW - Case studies KW - History KW - Case studies. KW - Études de cas. ER -