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In 1806 a 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. No one had been executed for rape in Massachusetts in more than a quarter century. Over one hundred local citizens petitioned for Wheeler's pardon - including, most remarkably, Betsy and her mother.

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• Full title: Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler
• Subtitle: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America
• Author: Irene Quenzler Brown, Richard D. Brown
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9780674017603
• ISBN: 0674017609
• ID: 04634700
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 431 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 130 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2005

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