Witches, wife beaters, and whores common law and common folk in early America /

Crane, Elaine Forman.

Witches, wife beaters, and whores common law and common folk in early America / Elaine Forman Crane. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9780801462733


Electronic Books.

KF394 / .W583 2011