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Terror to the Wicked: America’s FIrst Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation

September 16, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

Seventeenth-century New England’s bloody Pequot War erupted after English colonial settlers increasingly grabbed Indigenous inhabitants’ land. During the war, a relatively unknown legal case in Plymouth Colony set a precedent for justice—the trial by jury of three settlers for the unprovoked attack and murder of an Indigenous man named Penowanyanquis, a member of the Nipmuc Nation returning from a trade mission with valuable beaver pelts.

Join author and attorney Tobey Pearl on a virtual journey four hundred years into the past to the scene of the crime and the colonial meetinghouse-turned-courtroom, where the historic verdict was decisively delivered in 1638.

Tickets are free; donations are encouraged.

Please call 617-994-6678 for more information and/or click here.

The link for the webinar will be included in the order confirmation for this program.

Details

Date:
September 16, 2021
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
https://my.historicnewengland.org/11338/terror-to-the-wicked

Organizer

Historic New England
Phone
401-728-9696
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