The Ballad of Robert Charles
The Ballad of Robert Charles For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. During a manhunt that extended for days, violent…
Specifikacia The Ballad of Robert Charles
The Ballad of Robert Charles
For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. During a manhunt that extended for days, violent white mobs roamed the city, assaulting African Americans and killing at least half a dozen. After an altercation with police on a New Orleans street, Charles killed two police officers and fled.
The notorious episode was reported nationwide; years later, fabled jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton recalled memorializing Charles in song. When authorities located Charles, he held off a crowd of thousands for hours before being shot to death. Yet today, Charles is almost entirely invisible in the traditional historical record.
So who was Robert Charles, really? An outlaw? A black freedom fighter?
And how can we reconstruct his story?In this fascinating work, K. Stephen Prince sheds fresh light on both the history of
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