Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England

by Ann Marie Plane

Book Overview

In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely promised that if her life were spared, she would return to her husband and "continue faithfull to him during her life yea although hee should beat her againe...."These events, recorded in the court...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801483638
• ISBN13: 9780801483639
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher