A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial by Alexander Smyth

A Rape in the Early Republic: Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial

New Directions in Southern History

Alexander Smyth

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On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to r...

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