Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : Common Law and Common Folk in Early America.
Title:
Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : Common Law and Common Folk in Early America.
Author:
Crane, Elaine Forman.
ISBN:
9780801462733
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In Dutch with the Neighbors: Slander "in a well regulated Burghery" -- 2. Bermuda Triangle: Witchcraft, Quakers, and Sexual Eclecticism -- 3. "Leave of [f ] or Else I Would Cry Out Murder": The Community Response to Family Violence in Early New England -- 4. Cold Comfort: Race and Rape in Rhode Island -- 5. He Would "Shoot him upon the Spott": The Eviction of Samuel Banister -- 6. A Ghost Story -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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