Colonial Intimacies : : Indian Marriage in Early New England / / Ann Marie Plane.
In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely promised that if her life were spared, she would...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 2 maps, 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. "Amongst their nation"
- 2. "My heart did love the having of two wives"
- 3. "They had made a Law against it"
- 4. "In their Families"
- 5. "They ... take one another without Ceremony"
- 6. "At the Marriages of their Sachems"
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index