Fall River outrage : life, murder, and justice in early industrial New England /
Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fal...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
1986.
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhrs2 |
| Summary: | Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall River and the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church engaged in energetic campaigns to obtain a favorable verdict. It was also one of the earliest attempts by American lawyers to prove their client innocent by assassinating the moral character of the female victim. Fall River Outrage provides insight in American social, legal, and labor history as well as women's studies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585116318 9780585116310 9780812200881 0812200888 0812280024 9780812280029 0812212223 9780812212228 |