Deliberate Evil
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Deliberate Evil

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader

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Deliberate Evil

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader

About this book

The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem's influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen. A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more newsworthy. Meanwhile, young Salem native Nathaniel Hawthorne—who knew several of the accused—observed and wrote. Here, using source materials not available previously, Edward J. Renehan Jr. provides a riveting narrative of the cold-blooded murder, intense investigations, scandal-strewn trials, and grim executions that dominated headlines nearly two-hundred years ago.

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Information

Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781641603416
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. 1 Old Salem by Moonlight
  8. 2 An Inconvenient Apparition
  9. 3 Wharves and Decline
  10. 4 A Melancholy Process of Decay
  11. 5 Great the Pain This Monster Must Be In
  12. 6 Murder as One of the Fine Arts
  13. 7 The Knapps of Salem
  14. 8 The Crowninshields of Salem
  15. 9 Vigilance
  16. 10 A Damned Eternal Fortune
  17. 11 Forever Stained with Blood, Blood, Blood
  18. 12 In the Hands of an Angry God
  19. 13 Joseph Knapp Jr.’s Confession as Transcribed by Henry Colman
  20. 14 The Fiend Has Robbed Justice of Its Victim
  21. 15 An Elaborate Game of Chess
  22. 16 Black Dan
  23. 17 A Murder of No Ordinary Character
  24. 18 The Cry of the People Is for Blood
  25. 19 Refuting the Truth
  26. 20 The Conclusion of Webster’s Summation in the First Trial: “Suicide Is Confession”
  27. 21 A Contagion of Unexampled Popular Frenzy
  28. 22 Franklin Dexter’s Summation at the Second Trial
  29. 23 Daniel Webster’s Summation at the Second Trial
  30. 24 The Execution of Frank Knapp
  31. 25 Emphatically Encompassed by a Sea of Blood
  32. 26 She Must Be the Very Devil
  33. 27 The Complaint of the Human Heart
  34. 28 Ghosts
  35. Acknowledgments
  36. Appendix: The Last Will and Testament of Captain Joseph White
  37. Notes
  38. Bibliography
  39. Index