Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : : Common Law and Common Folk in Early America /

Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores : : Common Law and Common Folk in Early America / / Elaine Forman Crane.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Crane, Elaine Forman,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. In Dutch with the Neighbors
  • 2. Bermuda Triangle
  • 3. "Leave of [f ] or Else I Would Cry Out Murder"
  • 4. Cold Comfort
  • 5. He Would "Shoot him upon the Spott"
  • 6. A Ghost Story
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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