Witches, wife beaters, and whores : common law and common folk in early America / Elaine Forman Crane.

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, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americ...

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Main Author: Crane, Elaine Forman
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
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