A Tale of Two Masters, or the Jade's Revenge - Violence, Justice and Magic in Early Colonial America

"A Tale of Two Masters, of the Jades Revenge" takes the trials of two seventeenth-century Maryland planters, both accused of murdering a servant, to explore the rich and often startling alien legan, social and cultural landscapes of early colonial America. By interweaving both gripping historical narrative and incisive scholarship, Christine Daniels tells two stories that will reveal a great deal about the early colonial household, including the legal and social obligations of masters and dependants, acceptable and non acceptable forms of violence, patriarchy, and gender relations.

List of contents

Prologue Chapter 1: In Which We Meet the Players In Which A Blacksmith Becomes a Midwife to Death Chapter 3: In hich A Corpse Cries Out Its Murderer Chapter 4: In hich Old Tome is Cuckolded Chapter 5: In hich a Jade Enters and All Contentment Departs Chapter 6: In hich Tom atson Dies a Mysterious Death Chapter 7: In hich a Treasonous Plot is Revealed and The Jade is Sentenced to Burn Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: C. Daniels, Christine Daniels, Daniels Christine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.12.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9780415927475
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92747-5
• Subjects: Maryland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary essays, Sociology & anthropology, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Sociology and anthropology