The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America
In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox, Massachusetts, for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Brown, Richard D.
- ISBN: 978-0-674-01760-3
- EAN: 9780674017603
- Produktnummer: 1432222
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.4 cm 666 g
- Abbildungen: 16 halftones, 1 map
- Gewicht: 666
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Irene Quenzler Brown, a historian, is Associate Professor of Family Studies, University of Connecticut. Richard D. Brown is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, University of Connecticut, and Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.
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