| Abstrakt: |
The author considers how the unprovoked murder of African American farm laborer William Anthony Robinson by former Baltimore, Maryland police officer George Trust on the afternoon of November 11, 1879 provides information into race relations and the politics of South Baltimore in the latter part of the nineteenth century after the U.S. Civil War. Some of the subjects explored include the murder trial of Trust, the racial makeup of South Baltimore, African American social institutions, Maryland laws prohibiting African Americans from voting, and the politics and political machine of the Democratic Conservatives. |
