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Category : Rape
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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A Narrative of the Life of Ephraim Wheeler
Author: A Narrative of the Life of Ephraim Wheeler, who was Executed at Lenox, (Massachussetts) February 20th, 1806, for a Rape on the Body of His Daugher
Author: The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
Author: Irene Quenzler BrownPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674249240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
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. Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed. The death penalty had become controversial; no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century. Wheeler maintained his innocence. Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for his pardon--including, most remarkably, Betsy and her mother. Impoverished, illiterate, a failed farmer who married into a mixed-race family and clashed routinely with his wife, Wheeler existed on the margins of society. 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. They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence, poverty, gender, race and class, religion, and capital punishment, revealing similarities between death penalty politics in America today and two hundred years ago. Beautifully crafted, engagingly written, this unforgettable story probes deeply held beliefs about morality and about the nature of justice.
Chocolate for the Poor
Author: David R BeasleyPublisher: Davus Publishing
ISBN: 0915317044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Based on a true story about an incestuous rape which took place in Massachusetts in 1805. “....a page turning meditation that queries political expediency, religious fanaticism, superstition, fate, rage and redemption, issues as relevant today as they were in 1805.”— Brantford Expositor. “Beasley allows us to see, and more importantly to feel, some of the forces that enmesh a man only too easily and drive him to acts otherwise incomprehensible."—Hamilton Spectator.
Rape and Sexual Power in Early America
Author: Sharon BlockPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.
The Poison Plot
Author: Elaine Forman CranePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172133X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Explores in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, the tumultuous marriage of Benedict and Mary Arnold in the 1720s and 1730s. In and through their sordid and possibly criminal marital story, in which Mary is accused of poisoning Benedict, Crane sheds light on the liabilities and possibilities for women under couverture, the complex social and economic networks that bound together the elite and laboring classes of Newport, and the trans-oceanic cultures of trade, consumption, and sociability that came to shape expectations for marital satisfaction on both sides of the Atlantic"--
Rape and Sexual Power In Early America (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442958111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Rape and Sexual Power In Early America (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442957832
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Columbia Rising
Author: John L. BrookePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783887X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.
The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
Author: Irene Quenzler BrownPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674010208
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the crime and drawing on Wheeler’s jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, the authors illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America.