Covered With Night : : a Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

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Call Number: 364.152 Eu, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 17th & 18th Century / Eustace, Nicole
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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There is much to learn here submitted by m steve on August 28, 2022, 1:10pm As the title of this review indicates, there is much new material in this book that gives incite on Iroquois culture and how the British never seemed to altogether figure it out. If you are interested in early 18th Century American history, I recommend this.