Jim Hall

Author & Lecturer

Elvira Corder

On the hunt for a good title

I did a Google search on the title of my new book and learned two surprising things: There’s another book on the market with a similar title, and Amazon may be the online sales giant, but it has more competition than I realized. The folks at History Press came up with the title for my…
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Jim Hall

May 30, 2023

Blog, Getting Published, Lynching, Race Relations, Virginia History

Amazon, Arthur Jordan, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia, Bulk Bookstore, Condemned for Love, Condemned for Love in Old Virginia, Elvira Corder, Fauquier County, History Press, Target, Thrift Books
Slavery and Nathan Corder

Nathan Corder was the person most responsible for Arthur Jordan’s murder. He was also an enslaver from a long line of enslavers. Was there a link between the two? Did Corder’s past lead to his later cruelty? In his 1845 autobiography, Frederick Douglass, a former enslaved person, said that slavery was harmful to both enslaver…
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Jim Hall

May 23, 2023

Blog, Fauquier County, Va. History, Lynching, Race Relations, Virginia History

Arthur Jordan, Butler Corder, Condemned for Love in Old Virginia, Elvira Corder, Fauquier County, Frederick Douglass, Nathan Corder

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