Covered with night: a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America

"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous...

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1. Verfasser: Eustace, Nicole (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of WW Norton & Company [2021]
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case created a contest between Native American forms of justice, centered on community, forgiveness, and reparations, and an ideology of harsh reprisal, based on British law, that called for the killers' execution. In a stunning narrative history based on painstaking original research, acclaimed historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, taking us into the worlds of Euro-Americans and Indigenous peoples in this formative period. A feat of reclamation evoking Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale and Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town, Eustace's utterly absorbing account provides a new understanding of Indigenous forms of justice, with lessons for our era"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiv, 447 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte (schwarz-weiß) 25 cm
ISBN:9781631495878
9781324092162

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