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Fall River outrage : life, murder, and justice in early industrial New England / David Richard Kasserman.
- Title
- Fall River outrage : life, murder, and justice in early industrial New England / David Richard Kasserman.
- Author
- Kasserman, David Richard.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
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- Description
- x, 280 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Fall River Outrage" is an account of one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in the early nineteenth-century America. In 1832, Sarah Cornell, a pregnant mill worker, was found hung in the stock yeard of a Rhode Island farm. The investigation that followed implicated a prominent Methodist minister, Ephraim Kingsbury Avery, in Cornell's pregnancy and murder.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
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- Genre/Form
- History
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [255]-272.
- Contents
- 1. The Outrage 5 -- 2. Beginning a Life in the Mills 29 -- 3. Ending a Life in the Mills 51 -- 4. The Minister 75 -- 5. Preliminary Engagements 99 -- 6. The Prosecution 133 -- 7. The Defense 159 -- 8. The Verdict 187 -- 9. Public Justice 213.
- ISBN
- 0812280024 (alk. paper)
- 0812212223 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^85026454^
- OCLC
- 12805696
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library