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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kasserman, David Richard
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press 1986.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhrs2