Condemned for Love in Old Virginia: The Lynching of Arthur Jordan

by James Hall and Jim Hall

Book Overview

When romance was met with murder...

Arthur Jordan and Elvira Corder were young and unafraid, but their love was doomed. He was black, she was white, and this was Virginia in 1880. When Elvira became pregnant, the couple fled Fauquier County to live in Maryland. But her father found them and recruited neighbors to help kidnap them. Four nights later, a mob dragged Arthur from the county jail in Warrenton and lynched him. Elvira, taken...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540257398
• ISBN13: 9781540257390
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: History PR
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"