Cooping
Cooping was a practice by which unwilling participants were forced to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.
Edgar Allan Poe is thought by some to have been the victim of cooping before his mysterious death in early October 1849.[1] He was found lying in the streets on election day wearing someone else's clothing in Baltimore, Maryland.[2] Cooping is only one of many theories on Poe's death but is the one depicted in the film The Death of Poe.
See also
References
- ^ Walsh, John Evangelist. Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000. p. 32–33. ISBN 0312227329
- ^ The Crime Library: The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe