A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial
(Part of the New Directions in Southern History Series)
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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. Yet the events on that fateful day in 1806 would be the exception. In A Rape in the Early Republic,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813169526
ISBN13:9780813169521
Release Date:March 2017
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Length:136 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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