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 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Outrage 5
- 2. Beginning a Life in the Mills 29
- 3. Ending a Life in the Mills 51
- 4. The Minister 75
- 5. Preliminary Engagements 99
- 6. The Prosecution 133
- 7. The Defense 159
- 8. The Verdict 187
- 9. Public Justice 213.