Index of Persons for Gazetteer of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 1725-1885 (Part First)
Author | : Berkshire Genealogist Indexing Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Berkshire County (Mass.) |
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Author | : Berkshire Genealogist Indexing Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Berkshire County (Mass.) |
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Author | : Berkshire Family History Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Berkshire County (Mass.) |
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Author | : Irene Quenzler Brown |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2005-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674249240 |
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 penalty had become controversial; no one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century. Wheeler maintained his innocence. Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for his pardon--including, most remarkably, Betsy and her mother. Impoverished, illiterate, a failed farmer who married into a mixed-race family and clashed routinely with his wife, Wheeler existed on the margins of society. 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. They imaginatively and sensitively explore issues of family violence, poverty, gender, race and class, religion, and capital punishment, revealing similarities between death penalty politics in America today and two hundred years ago. Beautifully crafted, engagingly written, this unforgettable story probes deeply held beliefs about morality and about the nature of justice.
Author | : Richard Bogovich |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2022-10-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 147668460X |
Widely considered the best black player of the 19th century, Hall-of-Famer Frank Grant challenged baseball's color barrier in the 1880s to play for all-white professional teams--two of which fought a legal battle for his services. This first full-length biography documents Grant's career highlights, including successful games against Major League teams and at-bats against Hall-of-Fame pitchers. Stories overlooked for more than a century are examined, including a falsified anecdote that obscured one of Grant's best games from history. New light is shed on the early years of the Cuban Giants, the first black pro ball club.
Author | : New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
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Author | : Stanislaus Vincent Henkels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Books |
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