The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America Tapa dura - 2003

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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, April 2003. Hardcover . Good. Brown,Irene Quenzler/Brown,Richard D. Hanging Of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story Of Rape,Incest,And Justice In Early America Brodart. Light edge and corner wear to dust jacket. Light creases ot dust jacket. Dust jacket is in good condition. Light edge and corner wear to book. Pages still clean and tight. Book is in good condition. All U.S. orders shipped with tracking number and e-mail confirmation. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.

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Harvard University Press:, 2003. 388 pages, illustrated. "In 1806, an anxious crowd of thousand 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 has triumphed. The death penalty has become controversial, no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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. \n \nImpoverished, 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 illuminates a rarely seen slice of early America. They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence, poverty, gender, race and class, religion,… Leer más

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-674-01020-5 Octavo (8.5 in. by 5.75 in.); 388pp.; very good hardcover; very good dust jacket; torn dust jacket edges; scotchtaped verso; rubbed book edges; crisp; clean; bright..