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Witches, wife beaters, and whores : common law and common folk in early America /

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crane, Elaine Forman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • In Dutch with the neighbors : slander "in a well regulated burghery"
  • Bermuda triangle : witchcraft, Quakers, and sexual eclecticism
  • "Leave of[f] or else I would cry out murder" : the community response to family violence in early New England
  • Cold comfort : race and rape in Rhode Island
  • He would "shoot him upon the spott" : the eviction of Samuel Banister
  • A ghost story.