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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/1250761964 New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardA riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries―and how much has notOn a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel―the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. The ongoing conflict attracted the nation’s top lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and shaped the development of American law. The crime and its consequences became a kind of parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did succeed in holding her assailant accountable―but at a terrible cost to herself.Based on rigorous historical d
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New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardA riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries―and how much has notOn a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel―the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. The ongoing conflict attracted the nation’s top lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and shaped the development of American law. The crime and its consequences became a kind of parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did succeed in holding her assailant accountable―but at a terrible cost to herself.Based on rigorous historical d
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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/1250761964 New York Times
Editors’ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New
York City Book AwardA riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in
American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two
centuries―an how much has notOn a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was
committed in the back room of a New York brothel―th kind of crime that even victims usually
kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in
US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw
courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’sand
her assailant’slives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the
streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. The
ongoing conflict attracted the nation’stop lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and
shaped the development of American law. The crime and its consequences became a kind of
parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did
succeed in holding her assailant accountable―bu at a terrible cost to herself.Based on
rigorous historical detective work, this book takes us from a chance encounter in the street into the
sanctuaries of the city’selite, the shadows of its brothels, and the despair of its
debtors’prison. The Sewing Girl's Tale shows that if our laws and our culture were changed
by a persistent young woman and the power of words two hundred years ago, they can be
changed again.Includes photographs
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