Abstract
In December 1813, four white men were indicted for murdering an Indian. Over the course of the next five years—as trials, convictions, pleas for clemency, and punishments (or lack thereof) proceeded—the judiciary and executive attempted to define equal justice in the face of shifting public and political opinion.
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© 2008 by The New England Quarterly
2008
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