found in the woods. By the mid eighteenth century commercial preparations were so widely available that they had inspired their own euphemism (‘taking the trade’)” (Reagan, 1996). However, the major issues with these methods were that they caused many deaths. Hence the first laws in place regarding abortion were passed in the beginning of the 19th century and they actually manifested as poison control laws (Pollitt, 1997). Poisonous substances to create an abortion were banned, but the actual abortions were still legal. In fact during the mid 19th century, the abortion trade continued to thrive, as did… Continue Reading...
mid eighteenth century commercial preparations were so widely available that they had inspired their own euphemism (‘taking the trade’)” (Reagan, 1996). However, the major issues with these methods were that they caused many deaths. Hence the first laws in place regarding abortion were passed in the beginning of the 19th century and they actually manifested as poison control laws (Pollitt, 1997). Poisonous substances to create an abortion were banned, but the actual abortions were still legal. In fact during the mid 19th century, the abortion trade continued to thrive, as did… Continue Reading...
in Great Britain and the rest of Europe, prisoners were often tortured before being executed, even for relatively minor crimes or for their religious affiliations. Well into the eighteenth century, stealing small sums of money were capital offenses although by the early nineteenth century in Great Britain, only serious offenses were capital crimes. This was also true of colonial America. By 1776, most of the colonies had roughly comparable death statutes which covered arson, piracy, treason, murder, sodomy, burglary, robbery, rape, horse-stealing, slave rebellion, and often counterfeiting (Reggio 2014). The US Constitution expressly forbids cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
The question of whether the death penalty is cruel and unusual… Continue Reading...
At the same time, protecting states’ rights was critical in the late eighteenth century when the nation was born. Rural residents of the new United States did need to ensure that the federal government did not unnecessarily infringe on the rights of the people, or that the federal government was not only representative of an elite segment of society. Had the framers considered female members of the society to be real people and given them the full rights of citizenship including the power to own property and to vote, then it would also have been possible to have eliminated the scourge of… Continue Reading...
In her late eighteenth century novel that was formative in creating the Gothic genre that remains highly popular. Although mild by 21st century standards, The Old English Baron did contain enough supernatural content concerning Sir Philip Harclay's adventures and struggles with the supernatural to attract a large readership when it was published, and these same attributes still attract readers today. This paper provides a personal reaction to this novel, on its own, followed by a discussion concerning what this author thought of Reeve's relatively low-intensity supernatural descriptions. Finally, an analysis concerning whether the… Continue Reading...
former half of the eighteenth century, when the formation of a new state occurred, the same individual governed over both.
The practice of slavery was rife in Maryland and Virginia (Chesapeake colonies). For instance, by the year 1750, 4 out of 5 Afro-American slaves here were born here as well. Native Americans in British colonies who took up arms for retaining control of their native land were either slayed or driven out. Virginian English settlers considered the natives to be demonic heathens (Tindall and Emory Shi 97). By the year 1650, a majority of… Continue Reading...