Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America by Elaine Forman Crane

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

Elaine Forman Crane

278 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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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, Elain...

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