The life and adventures of Joseph Mountain, a Negro highwayman

Who practised robbing in England, France, Spain and Holland, about ten years, without detection, and was finally executed at Newhaven, in Connecticut, on the 20th of October, 1790, for committing a rape on the body of a respectable young girl of that town

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Author

Publication

1791 - Printed by Anthony Haswell, Bennington, (Vermont), Vermont

Language

English

Word Count

7,000 words, Guess

Page Count

28 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL58197794M
OCLC Control Number55840634

Subjects

Topics

Rape African American criminals Executions and executioners

Places

New Haven Connecticut

People

Joseph Mountain (1758-1790)

Series Statement

Early American imprints -- no. 46146

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Joseph Mountain, David Daggett

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