Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America
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
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- ISBN: 9781631495878
- Physical Description xiv, 447 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Table of Contents
Covered with Night : A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. 1 | |
Chapter 1 | Tomorrow's Doom | p. 13 |
July 30-August 1, 1722 | ||
Chapter 2 | Taquatarensaly (Captain Civility) | p. 40 |
Chapter 3 | When Things Go Ill | p. 46 |
February 1722 | ||
Chapter 4 | Sawantaeny | p. 63 |
Chapter 5 | Sorrow Will Come Fast | p. 69 |
March 6, 1722 | ||
Chapter 6 | John Cartlidge | p. 87 |
Chapter 7 | What Content and Decency Require | p. 93 |
March 7-14, 1722 | ||
Chapter 8 | Peter Bezaillion | p. 112 |
Chapter 9 | Two Heads Are Better Than One | p. 119 |
March 15-17, 1722 | ||
Chapter 10 | Weenepeeweytah and Elizabeth Cartlidge | p. 137 |
Chapter 11 | Forgive Anyone Sooner Than Thyself | p. 144 |
March 21-26, 1722 | ||
Chapter 12 | Isaac Norris | p. 161 |
Chapter 13 | He Will Go To Law | p. 171 |
April 4-7, 1722 | ||
Chapter 14 | Satcheechoe | p. 194 |
Chapter 15 | Stark Naught | p. 200 |
May 4-11, 1722 | ||
Chapter 16 | William Keith | p. 219 |
Chapter 17 | Take Him Now | p. 228 |
June 15-July 2, 1722 | ||
Chapter 18 | Ousewayteichks (Smith The Ganawese) | p. 244 |
Chapter 19 | Money and Good Men | p. 251 |
August 3-15, 1722 | ||
Chapter 20 | James Le Tort | p. 267 |
Chapter 21 | A Word to the Wise | p. 275 |
August-September 1722 | ||
Chapter 22 | James Logan | p. 297 |
Chapter 23 | Stiff Obstinacy | p. 307 |
October 3-5, 1722 | ||
Chapter 24 | Civility's Last Word | p. 323 |
Acknowledgments | p. 339 | |
Notes | p. 345 | |
Bibliography | p. 407 | |
Index | p. 429 |