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Professor Kenneth J. Zanca analyzes the responses of mid-nineteenth century Catholics in America to Mrs. Mary Surratt's trial and execution for her part in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. These reactions are placed within various contexts: the Catholic Church during America's Civil War; the wider secular and Protestant culture of the Victorian era; the post-assassination climate of 1865; and Vatican politics. Previous studies of Mrs. Surratt have explored the issues of her guilt or innocence. This work takes a line of inquiry not yet explored by historians, Catholic or otherwise, in that it investigates reactions to her execution through the eyes of contemporary Catholic and Protestant witnesses and commentators.

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• Full title: Catholics and Mrs. Mary Surratt
• Subtitle: How They Responded to the Trial and Execution of the Lincoln Conspirator
• Author: Kenneth J. Zanca
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9780761840237
• ISBN: 0761840230
• ID: 04914272
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 299 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. February 2008

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