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Everyday Crimes - Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America (Hardcover)
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Everyday Crimes - Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America (Hardcover)
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The narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social
and domestic violence in the nineteenth century In the early
nineteenth century, Peter Wheeler, a slave to Gideon Morehouse in
New York, protested, “Master, I won’t stand this,” after
Morehouse beat Wheeler’s hands with a whip. Wheeler ran for
safety, but Morehouse followed him with a shotgun and fired several
times. Wheeler sought help from people in the town, but his
eventual escape from slavery was the only way to fully secure his
safety. Everyday Crimes tells the story of legally and socially
dependent people like Wheeler—free and enslaved African
Americans, married white women, and servants—who resisted
violence in Massachusetts and New York despite lacking formal
protection through the legal system. These “dependents” found
ways to fight back against their abusers through various resistance
strategies. Individuals made it clear that they wouldn’t stand
the abuse. Developing relationships with neighbors and justices of
the peace, making their complaints known within their communities,
and, occasionally, resorting to violence, were among their tactics.
In bearing their scars and telling their stories, these victims of
abuse put a human face on the civil rights issues related to legal
and social dependency, and claimed the rights of individuals to
live without fear of violence.
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