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New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize
Winner of the New York Society Library''s New York City Book Award
Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year
Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History
Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize

A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuriesand how much has not

On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothelthe kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape.

Her accusat

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/07/2023
      ISBN13: 9781250871480, 978-1250871480
      ISBN10: 1250871484
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      New York Times Editors' Choice
      Winner of the Bancroft Prize
      Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
      Winner of the Gotham Book Prize
      Winner of the New York Society Library''s New York City Book Award
      Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year
      Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History
      Winner of the James Bradford Best Biography Prize

      A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuriesand how much has not

      On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothelthe kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape.

      Her accusat

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