Witches, wife beaters, and whores : common law and common folk in early America / Elaine Forman Crane.
2011
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Author
Title
Witches, wife beaters, and whores : common law and common folk in early America / Elaine Forman Crane.
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Call Number
KF394 .C736 2011
ISBN
9780801450273 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801450276 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801477416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801477417 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801450276 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801477416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801477417 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)708243813
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
1.
In Dutch with the Neighbors: Slander "in a well regulated Burghery"
17
2.
Bermuda Triangle: Witchcraft, Quakers, and Sexual Eclecticism
46
3.
"Leave of[f] or Else I Would Cry Out Murder": The Community Response to Family Violence in Early New England
84
4.
Cold Comfort: Race and Rape in Rhode Island
119
5.
He Would "Shoot him upon the Spott": The Eviction of Samuel Banister
150
6.
A Ghost Story
178
Epilogue
211
Notes
217
Index
263