A Murder In Virginia By Suzanne Lebsock

A Murder in Virginia is a book about a white woman named Lucy Jane Pollard who was murdered with an ax. The book was set in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1895. The book takes us back into post Civil War southern justice. At this time period race separation was still in full effect. Quickly after Pollard was found dead authorities had arrested three African American women and one African American male. All of the suspects would maintain their innocence throughout the trials and book. This book displays many ways in which whites and blacks go against each other but also how they work together. With this book the reader will learn about more than just a murder in Virginia, they will also learn a lesson about race.
In 1895 The African-American

While white supremacy and segregation are in this story from beginning to end, the story is not just about how the whites were trying to segregate from the blacks. The story also includes parts where the white and the blacks work together for justice. I think that Suzanne Lebsock does a great job of making us look past what we think about the Jim Crow laws, The African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the white supremacy of that time and to rethink the history of that time period. She wants us to think about the interracial collaboration, such as those seen in the Pollard trials. Lebstock wants us to think about these events, because when we think about the end of the 19th century we only think about how the white and blacks worked against each other and seem to skip the small parts when the white and blacks worked together. Suzanne Lebsock did a good job writing this book. She used factual historical interpretation to tell you about the way life was in the late nineteenth century when it came to the way black and whites worked together, while still remaining to tell you a good story. Suzanne keeps the reader thinking about the story and not only thinking about the history behind. One way she does this is by making you know the characters in the story. For most of the characters she introduces she puts a little picture on the page and gives a description about them. This way the reader can know it is a character and know about them. Suzanne Lebstock does a great job of using historical facts and knowledge to re-create historical events and make it into a