Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 21, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786498536
Description: "Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond were held accountable in the Police Court. What emerges from the public record is a picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South"--