The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown
Shufelt, Gordon H
An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century Baltimore In 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underl...