The Isaiah Fountain Case: Outrage and Jim Crow Justice on Maryland's Eastern Shore is the first book-length account of a sensational rape case that convulsed Talbot County and made national headlines early in the 20th century. Isaiah Fountain was a bold and resourceful African American whose struggle to prove his innocence of a White girl's rape was conducted in the face of lynch mobs, manhunts, outraged citizens, armed troops, media controversies,...