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Informationen zum Autor Irene Quenzler Brown, a historian, is Associate Professor of Family Studies, University of Connecticut. Richard D. Brown is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, University of Connecticut, and Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. Klappentext In 1806 an anxious crowd of thousands descended upon Lenox! Massachusetts! for the public hanging of Ephraim Wheeler! condemned for the rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter! Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the tragic crime and drawing on Wheeler's jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history! Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America. Zusammenfassung In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his 13-year-old daughter, Betsy. Using the trial report to reconstruct the crime and drawing on Wheeler’s jailhouse autobiography to unravel his troubled family history, the authors illuminate a rarely seen slice of early America. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Map of Berkshire County! ca. 1800 Introduction: The Ride to the Gallows 1. The Setting 2. The Trial 3. The Daughter 4. The Wife and Mother 5. The Condemned Man 6. The Final Judgment 7. The Execution Aftermath: People and Memory Notes Acknowledgments Index
