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A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial (New Directions In Southern History)
A Rape in the Early Republic Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial - New Directions In Southern History
Author: Alexander Smyth
On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to reconstruct the lives of those involved and evaluate the social and physical setting of the crime. Ye...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813169521
ISBN-10: 0813169526
Publication Date: 3/7/2017
Pages: 136
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Book Type: Paperback
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