Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : : Common Law and Common Folk in Early America / / Elaine Forman Crane.
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...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 12 halftones |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
LEADER | 05071nam a2200685Ia 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | 9780801462733 | ||
003 | DE-B1597 | ||
005 | 20240426104009.0 | ||
006 | m|||||o||d|||||||| | ||
007 | cr || |||||||| | ||
008 | 240426t20112012nyu fo d z eng d | ||
019 | |a (OCoLC)987945302 | ||
020 | |a 9780801462733 | ||
024 | 7 | |a 10.7591/9780801462733 |2 doi | |
035 | |a (DE-B1597)481746 | ||
035 | |a (OCoLC)760279912 | ||
040 | |a DE-B1597 |b eng |c DE-B1597 |e rda | ||
041 | 0 | |a eng | |
044 | |a nyu |c US-NY | ||
072 | 7 | |a HIS036020 |2 bisacsh | |
082 | 0 | 4 | |a 340.5/7097309032 |2 22 |
100 | 1 | |a Crane, Elaine Forman, |e author. |4 aut |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : |b Common Law and Common Folk in Early America / |c Elaine Forman Crane. |
264 | 1 | |a Ithaca, NY : |b Cornell University Press, |c [2011] | |
264 | 4 | |c ©2012 | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (288 p.) : |b 12 halftones | ||
336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
347 | |a text file |b PDF |2 rda | ||
505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. In Dutch with the Neighbors -- |t 2. Bermuda Triangle -- |t 3. “Leave of [f ] or Else I Would Cry Out Murder” -- |t 4. Cold Comfort -- |t 5. He Would “Shoot him upon the Spott” -- |t 6. A Ghost Story -- |t Epilogue -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
506 | 0 | |a restricted access |u http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec |f online access with authorization |2 star | |
520 | |a 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 Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the country reveal, alleged malefactors such as witches, wife beaters, and whores, as well as debtors, rapists, and fornicators, were as much a part of the social landscape as farmers, merchants, and ministers. Ordinary people "made" law by establishing and enforcing informal rules of conduct. Codified by a handshake or over a mug of ale, such agreements became custom and custom became "law." Furthermore, by submitting to formal laws initiated from above, common folk legitimized a government that depended on popular consent to rule with authority.In this book we meet Marretie Joris, a New Amsterdam entrepreneur who sues Gabriel de Haes for calling her a whore; peer cautiously at Christian Stevenson, a Bermudian witch as bad "as any in the world;" and learn that Hannah Dyre feared to be alone with her husband—and subsequently died after a beating. We travel with Comfort Taylor as she crosses Narragansett Bay with Cuff, an enslaved ferry captain, whom she accuses of attempted rape, and watch as Samuel Banister pulls the trigger of a gun that kills the sheriff's deputy who tried to evict Banister from his home. And finally, we consider the promiscuous Marylanders Thomas Harris and Ann Goldsborough, who parented four illegitimate children, ran afoul of inheritance laws, and resolved matters only with the assistance of a ghost. Through the six trials she skillfully reconstructs here, Crane offers a surprising new look at how early American society defined and punished aberrant behavior, even as it defined itself through its legal system. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) | |
650 | 0 | |a Common law |z United States |x History |y 17th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Domestic relations |z United States |x History |y 17th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Sociological jurisprudence |z United States |x History |y 17th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Women |x Legal status, laws, etc |z United States |x History |y 17th century. | |
650 | 4 | |a Early American & Colonial History. | |
650 | 4 | |a Legal History & Studies. | |
650 | 4 | |a U.S. History. | |
650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a early legal system, history of law, american legal culture, witchcraft, law and power, law and poverty, law and gender, american customs. | ||
773 | 0 | 8 | |i Title is part of eBook package: |d De Gruyter |t Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |z 9783110536157 |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462733 |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462733 |
856 | 4 | 2 | |3 Cover |u https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462733/original |
912 | |a 978-3-11-053615-7 Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |c 2000 |d 2013 | ||
912 | |a EBA_BACKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_CL_HICS | ||
912 | |a EBA_EBACKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_EBKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_ECL_HICS | ||
912 | |a EBA_EEBKALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_ESSHALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_PPALL | ||
912 | |a EBA_SSHALL | ||
912 | |a GBV-deGruyter-alles |