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

Name: Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores Common Law and Common Folk in Early America
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ISBN: 9780801477416

ISBN-10: 0801477417

ISBN-13: 9780801477416

Edition: 2011

Authors: 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 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…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



In Dutch with the Neighbors: Slander "in a well regulated Burghery"



Bermuda Triangle: Witchcraft, Quakers, and Sexual Eclecticism



"Leave of [f] or Else I Would Cry Out Murder": The Community Response to Family Violence in Early New England



Cold Comfort: Race and Rape in Rhode Island



He Would "Shoot him upon the Spott": The Eviction of Samuel Banister



A Ghost Story


Epilogue


Notes


Index