The Trial of Alice Clifton: Judicial Catharsis in Institutional Bias
This is a critical introduction and rhetorical analysis of a moment of criminal crisis at a time of profound institutional bias: the 1787 infanticide trial of a young Philadelphia slave and rape victim named Alice Clifton. A dramatistic view of the case—in the tradition of Kenneth Burke—reveals the...
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North Dakota State University
2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27457 |