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Crime and punishment in the Delaware River area, 1740-1790, as reported in the Philadelphia newspapers
This study is concerned with crime and its punishment in the colonies along the Delaware during the period from 1740-1790. The criminal code which was-in force during this period was the harsh English criminal law. A long list, of crimes were designated as capital offenses. The list included the …
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East is East and West is West: Philadelphia Newspaper Coverage of the East-West Divide in Early America
… viewed through the lens of eighteenth-century Philadelphia newspapers, which themselves employed an East-West paradigm to interpret four events: the Paxton Boys Incident, Regulator Rebellion, Shays's Rebellion, and Constitutional Convention. Through the choices of what words to use to describe …