More bad (and I mean bad) language from olden days.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Lowry notes that the victim's "race was not specified."

JL

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:16:58AM -0500, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > The quote was attributed, by the 14-year-old victim, to a
> > 16-year-old African-American defendant in a trial for attempted rape in
> > Currituck Co., N.C., in September, 1865.  The defendant's conviction
> > resulted, perhaps surprisingly, in a sentence of just one month in jail.
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> The victim was white? And the sentence was for just a month?
> That's pretty shocking to me.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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