The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America by Richard D. Brown, Irene Quenzler Brown

The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America

Richard D. Brown, Irene Quenzler Brown

408 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology true crime informative slow-paced
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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. Not all witnesses believed justice had triumphed. The death pena...

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