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Fall River Outrage : Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England / David Richard Kasserman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©1986Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 20 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812212228
  • 9780812200881
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.73/02523 347.3052523 19
LOC classification:
  • KF223.A94 K37 1986eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Outrage -- 2. Beginning a Life in the Mills -- 3. Ending a Life in the Mills -- 4. The Minister -- 5. Preliminary Engagements -- 6. The Prosecution -- 7.The Defense -- 8. The Verdict -- 9. Public Justice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall River and the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church engaged in energetic campaigns to obtain a favorable verdict. It was also one of the earliest attempts by American lawyers to prove their client innocent by assassinating the moral character of the female victim. Fall River Outrage provides insight in American social, legal, and labor history as well as women's studies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Outrage -- 2. Beginning a Life in the Mills -- 3. Ending a Life in the Mills -- 4. The Minister -- 5. Preliminary Engagements -- 6. The Prosecution -- 7.The Defense -- 8. The Verdict -- 9. Public Justice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall River and the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church engaged in energetic campaigns to obtain a favorable verdict. It was also one of the earliest attempts by American lawyers to prove their client innocent by assassinating the moral character of the female victim. Fall River Outrage provides insight in American social, legal, and labor history as well as women's studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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