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Author:

Eustace, Nicole, author.

Title:

Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America / Nicole Eustace.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporation,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

1700-1799
Murder--United States--History--18th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History--18th century.
Homicide investigation--United States--History--18th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Homicide investigation.
Murder.
United States.
History.
True crime stories.
True crime stories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1631495879
9781631495878

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1155083172

LCCN:

2020050130

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