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Author Brown, Irene Quenzler.

Title The hanging of Ephraim Wheeler : a story of rape, incest, and justice in early America / Irene Quenzler Brown, Richard D. Brown.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.1532 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  974.4 BROWN    Check Shelf
Description 388 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-365) and index.
Contents The ride to the gallows -- The setting -- The trial -- The daughter -- The wife and mother -- The condemned man -- The final judgment -- The execution.
Subject Wheeler, Ephraim.
Rape -- Massachusetts -- Berkshire County -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Incest -- Massachusetts -- Berkshire County -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Hanging -- Massachusetts -- Lenox -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Dysfunctional families -- Massachusetts -- Berkshire County -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Interracial marriage -- Massachusetts -- Berkshire County -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Capital punishment -- Massachusetts -- Berkshire County -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
Berkshire County (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Berkshire County (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Added Author Brown, Richard D.
ISBN 0674010205 alkaline paper
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