This was an excellent account of a total miscarriage of justice due to racism and its codification in American jurisprudence at the time. The horrific murder of the honorable George Wythe and the failure of the justice to which he dedicated his life to punish his killer, wow!!! There is also an interesting history of arsenic poisoning, racial relations in Richmond, period social life in Richmond and the pointed failure of the legal system one to two steps behind the times, as usual. Excellent summer read, investigative history, very readable.
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