The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

Wednesday, March 27 | 4:30pm | Auditorium

JOHN WOOD SWEET AMERICAN HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR

John Wood Sweet joins us to speak on his book The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequence in Revolutionary America. A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, reveals how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has not. Based on rigorous historical detective work, this book takes us from a chance encounter in the street, into the sanctuaries of the city’s elite, 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.

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