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Naked Quakers and other forgotten
Americans—feisty, unruly and surprisingly
irreverent—come to life in these true court
cases from colonial New England. The title story
involves a
Quaker woman who walked into Puritan
Sunday meeting and dropped her dress in front of
the gathering, to protest actions of the
colonial authorities. Chapters include
Witches and Wild Women, Coupling,
Parents and Youth, Tavern Tales,
Slaves and Servants, Neighbor vs.
Neighbor, Sunday Meeting, Frontier
Justice, Offshore Antics, and
Lawyers and Judges.
“Call it Court TV meets the History Channel.
Via a collection of true vignettes, Rapaport
reveals that our Puritan forebears were not
all stiff hats and stern faces. Colonial
misbehavior was rampant. Pigs were
purloined, wives were led astray, too many
drams of rum were drunk, and even church
pews were fought over in unseemly ways.”
Denise Davis,
Boston
Globe.
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“Inside Diane Rapaport’s
‘true crimes and controversies from the courts
of colonial New England’ are stories that will
remind you that our forebears could be just as
unusual and nutty as our contemporaries.”
Melanie Lauwers,
Books Editor,
Cape Cod Times.
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