Author: Ephraim WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Report of the Trial of Ephraim Wheeler for a Rape Committed on the Body of Betsy Wheeler, His Daughter, a Girl Thirteen Years of Age
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Author: Ephraim WheelerRape 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.
Rape and Sexual Power In Early America (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442957735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
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
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.
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.
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.
Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late Charles Deane
Author: Charles DeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
American Sexual Histories
Author: Elizabeth ReisPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144433929X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The second edition of American Sexual Histories features an updated collection of sixteen articles and their corresponding primary sources that investigate issues related to human sexuality in America from the colonial era to the present day. Fully updated with ten new chapters, featuring recently published essays by prominent scholars in the field Provides readers with the source documents that historians have analyzed in their articles Allows readers to see how historians craft arguments based on available sources Encourages readers to evaluate historical documents, test the interpretations of historians, and draw their own conclusions