Covered with Night : A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Ea...
Covered with Night : A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
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In Covered with Night , leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period. As she shows, the murder of the Indigenous man set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing war was imminent. Isolated killings often flared into colonial wars in North America and colonists now anticipated a vengeful Indigenous uprising. Frantic efforts to resolve the case ignited a dramatic, far-reaching debate between Native American forms of justice-centred on community, forgiveness and reparations-and an ideology of harsh reprisal, unique to the colonies and based on British law, which called for the killers' swift execution.