Please join the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture for:
‘Particularly Remarkable for her Crime:’ Scholars’ Tea with Robin Robinson
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
2:00-3:00pm
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library, Duke University:
Landing certificate for Mary Holmes, 1749, at Port Oxford, MD, convicted in Denbighshire, Wales, 1748, for theft of a shirt
Robin Robinson, Associate Professor of Sociology/Crime and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, will give a presentation about her research for her book ‘Particularly Remarkable for her Crime:’ Transportation and Transformation of Female Convicts as Unfree Labor in Colonial America, 1674-1776. Dr. Robinson is a recipient of a Mary Lily Research Grant from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture.
Light refreshments will be provided.
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New Rubenstein Library Materials Added to the Internet Archive- Annual catalogue of the S.P. Lees Collegiate Institute of Central University at Jackson, Kentucky [serial] June 17, 2013
- Annual catalogue of the S.P. Lees Collegiate Institute of Central University at Jackson, Kentucky [serial] June 17, 2013
- Verfassung der Deutschen Schützen-Gessellschaft in Charleston, Süd-Carolina. Gegründet am 21. Mai 1855. Gesetze revidirt Mai 1868 und Januar 1872 June 17, 2013
- Address of Senator Charles A. Culberson at the Iroquois Club Banquet, Chicago, April 13, 1904 June 17, 2013
- The book of nature : containing information for young people who think of getting married : on the philosophy of procreation and sexual intercourse, showing how to prevent conception and to avoid child-bearing : also, rules for management during labor and child-birth June 17, 2013
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