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A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
AuthorSuzanne Lebsock
Cover artistChin-Yee Lai
LanguageEnglish
PublisherW. W. Norton
Publication date
2003
Publication placeUnited States
Pages442
ISBN0-393-32606-3
OCLC57213559

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial is a book by Suzanne Lebsock detailing the cases surrounding the murder of Lucy Pollard in 1895 in Lunenburg County, Virginia.

It won the 2004 Parkman Prize. Published in 2003, it is the story of three African-American women and a man, Solomon Marable, who in 1895 were accused of ax-murdering a white woman.[1]

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