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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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 296
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date:
03 August 2010
ISBN: 9780812200881
Format: eBook
BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, History of the Americas
"A meticulous account that reads as engrossing as a modern murder mystery. . . . A deeply textured and highly readable book on which any such synthesis [about the social forces in Jacksonian America] must draw."
David Richard Kasserman taught anthropology at Glassboro State College. His interest in the Cornell-Avery trial grew out of his research on the American cotton industry.
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