In this podcast I talk with author Sally Cabot Gunning about law in the Satucket Trilogy: The Widow’s War, Bound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke (Harper 2006, 2008, 2010). Gunning is an accomplished writer of mystery novels and historical fiction set in eighteenth-century America. By bringing to life important pieces of America’s legal past, her stories encourage a wide audience to wrestle with a diverse array of legal theories.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Colonial jurisprudence

• The legal status of women in puritan New England

• Indentured servitude

• Infanticide trials

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