Murder in the Shenandoah : making law sovereign in revolutionary Virginia / Jessica K. Lowe.
On July 4, 1791, the fifteenth anniversary of American Independence, John Crane, a descendant of prominent Virginian families, killed his neighbor's harvest worker. Murder in the Shenandoah traces the story of this early murder case as it entangled powerful Virginians and addressed the question...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108377812 |
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