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The trial and execution for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis, slaves of Capt. John Codman

who murdered their master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755, for which the man was hanged and gibbeted, and the woman was burned to death : including, also, some account of other punishments by burning in Massachusetts

by Abner Cheney Goodell

Trials, litigationCriminalsTrials (Treason)African American criminalsTrialsPunishmentCrime and criminalsCrime
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