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Its nice to be here surrounded by pictures of Edgar Allen Poe and books about poe and baltimore in many ways has a feel a lot like new orleans, an old port city with traditions and a quirky and sometimes spooky history. And i always kind of feel at home in baltimore just as i feel at home in new orleans. And where i lived for 10 years. What i want to do tonight is introduce you to this case that has a kind of that has kind of disappeared from the american memory, but at least for the summer of 1870 captivated the nation, newspaper readers across the country and try to explain to it you in the so that you can see what i saw as i stumbled across it. I began writing i found this story while i was doing much more traditional legal history. I was researching the famous slaughterhouse cases, the first case where the Supreme Court intercepted the 14th amendment and i was reading every single day of the new orleans newspapers in 1870 and suddenly theres this story about a white baby being abdu

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