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The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
By Sweet, John Wood
- ISBN
- 9781250761965
- Publisher
- Holt
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Starred Review on June 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
An engrossing, historical, true crime narrative that reconstructs the 1793 rape of Lanah Sawyer. The subsequent trial of Henry "Harry" Bedlow and the societal consequences of the crime are still relevant today. Sweet (Bodies Politic) provides an exhaustively researched and detailed reconstruction of a lesser known but extremely important case in American...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
