 | Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England Subjects: Avery Ephraim K. d. 1869 -- Trials litigation etc; Trials (Murder) -- Rhode Island -- Newport; Labour and laboring classes -- Massachusetts -- Fall River -- History; Cornell Sarah Maria 1802–1832; Recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases--a minister charged with the death by hanging of a pregnant mill worker--in nineteenth-century America. David Richard Kasserman taught anthropology at Glassboro State College. His interest in the Cornell-Avery trial grew out of his research on the American cotton industry. |
