| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice, and Settling the Land—A Historical Whodunit <http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/>. Created by Ruth Sandwell and John Lutz; redesigned in 2000 by Patrick Szpak and the staff of the Humanities Computing Media Center, University of Victoria, B.C. Reviewed Jan. 2–3, 2004.

In 1868, William Robinson, an African American, was murdered on Salt Spring Island in the British colony of British Columbia. Two other members of the island's African American refugee community were killed in 1867 and 1868, but only Robinson's death led to a trial. In 1869, Tshuanhusset, a Penelekut Indian, was convicted and hanged. Despite that outcome, the evidence fails definitively to establish Tshuanhusset's guilt. The identity of Robinson's killer is, true to the site's title, a historical whodunit, a mystery that offers an effective hook with which to draw users into an exploration of frontier society and the nature of historical research.

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