Taming Lust

Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic (Early American Studies)

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216 pages 2014

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This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and executed for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the region.

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