{"product_id":"murder-on-the-ohio-belle-stuart-w-sanders-9780813178714","title":"Murder on the Ohio Belle","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from the river with alarming frequency. But this body, with its arms and legs tied to a chair, struck an especially eerie chord. The body belonged to a man who had been a passenger on the luxurious steamboat known as the \u003ci\u003eOhio Belle, \u003c\/i\u003eand he was the son of a southern planter. Who had bound and pitched this wealthy man into the river? Why? As reports of the killing spread, one newspaper shuddered, \"The details are truly awful and well calculated to cause a thrill of horror.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on eyewitness accounts, \u003ci\u003eMurder on the Ohio Belle \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the mysterious circumstances behind the bloodshed. A northern vessel captured by secessionists, sailing the border between slave and free states at the edge of the frontier, the \u003ci\u003eOhio Belle\u003c\/i\u003e navigated the confluence of nineteenth-century America's greatest tensions. Stuart W. Sanders dives into the history of this remarkable steamer-a story of double murders, secret identities, and hasty getaways-and reveals the bloody roots of antebellum honor culture, classism, and vigilante justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stuart W. Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813178711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813178714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.60d","brand":"Stuart W. Sanders","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43978379919615,"sku":"9780813178714","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b7af8a3b-9e90-434d-8e83-670d6666a240.jpg?v=1683241227","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/murder-on-the-ohio-belle-stuart-w-sanders-9780813178714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}