Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
(Part of the Early American Studies Series)
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In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812223756
ISBN13:9780812223750
Release Date:December 2016
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.71 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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