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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.