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In 1826, Jereboam 0. Beauchamp was sentenced to hang for
assassinating Col. Solomon P. Sharp, an older man who Beachamp
claimed had seduced his young wife prior to their mar riage. In
prison, Beauchamp wrote his Confession, which was published after
his hanging. The fact that his wife committed suicide in his jail
cell and was buried in the same coffin with him led to the
incident's wide renown as "The Kentucky Tragedy." In addition, the
Confession was extensively reprinted in cheap pamphlets during the
nineteenth century, and it has inspired a number of novels, plays,
short stories, and folk songs, the best known of which are Edgar
Allan Poe's Politian, William Gilmore Simms's Charlemont and
Beauchampe, and Robert Penn Warren's World Enough and Time.
Title: The confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp: who was executed at
Frankfort, Ky., on the 7th of July, 1826, for the murder of Col.
Solomon P. Sharp, a member of the legislature, and late attorney
general of Ky.Author: Jereboam O BeauchampPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03875400CollectionID:
CTRG02-B116PublicationDate: 18260101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Pref. signed (p. 4): J. O. Beauchamp, May 22, 1826.
Error in pagination: page numbers 109-112 omitted.Collation: 134
i.e., 130] p.; 26 cm
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