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Deliberate evil : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader / Edward J. Renehan, Jr.
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- ISBN: 9781641603386
- ISBN: 1641603380
- Physical Description: xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ℗♭2022.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Pease Public Library | 364.1523 RENEHAN
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Deliberate Evil : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader
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Deliberate Evil : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | p. xi | |
| 1 | Old Salem by Moonlight | p. 1 |
| 2 | An Inconvenient Apparition | p. 5 |
| 3 | Wharves and Decline | p. 13 |
| 4 | A Melancholy Process of Decay | p. 20 |
| 5 | Great the Pain This Monster Must Be In | p. 26 |
| 6 | Murder as One of the Fine Arts | p. 32 |
| 7 | The Knapps of Salem | p. 41 |
| 8 | The Crowninshields of Salem | p. 47 |
| 9 | Vigilance | p. 64 |
| 10 | A Damned Eternal Fortune | p. 70 |
| 11 | Forever Stained with Blood, Blood, Blood | p. 76 |
| 12 | In the Hands of an Angry God | p. 85 |
| 13 | Joseph Knapp Jr.'s Confession as Transcribed by Henry Colman | p. 93 |
| 14 | The Fiend Has Robbed Justice of Its Victim | p. 97 |
| 15 | An Elaborate Game of Chess | p. 101 |
| 16 | Black Dan | p. 106 |
| 17 | A Murder of No Ordinary Character | p. 111 |
| 18 | The Cry of the People Is for Blood | p. 123 |
| 19 | Refuting the Truth | p. 127 |
| 20 | The Conclusion of Webster's Summation in the First Trial: "Suicide Is Confession" | p. 131 |
| 21 | A Contagion of Unexampled Popular Frenzy | p. 135 |
| 22 | Franklin Dexter's Summation at the Second Trial | p. 138 |
| 23 | Daniel Webster's Summation at the Second Trial | p. 162 |
| 24 | The Execution of Frank Knapp | p. 177 |
| 25 | Emphatically Encompassed by a Sea of Blood | p. 181 |
| 26 | She Must Be the Very Devil | p. 186 |
| 27 | The Complaint of the Human Heart | p. 190 |
| 28 | Ghosts | p. 193 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 209 | |
| Appendix: The Last Will and Testament of Captain Joseph White | p. 211 | |
| Notes | p. 215 | |
| Bibliography | p. 227 | |
| Index | p. 231 |
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