“To lawless rapine bred”: A study of early Northeastern execution literature featuring people of African descent
This dissertation explores execution literature, a genre of literature popular in the Northeastern American colonies and successor states. The texts I explore are written between 1693 and 1817 and feature people of African descent. There are three types of texts that make up execution literature; ex...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2005
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3179901 |