Season 2: Episode #42: What crimes were women accused of in the 17th and 18th Century? with Dr. Shannon Duffy

In this Episode, Kelsie and Brooke chat with the legal historian, Dr. Shannon Duffy about her work researching women in colonial America. We discuss infanticide, witchcraft, murder, and homosexuality. We learned a lot and you will too! Join us!

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Dr. Shannon Duffy received her BA from Emory University, her MA from the University of New Orleans, and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Early American History at Texas State University and writes on issues of personal and community identity formation in the Revolutionary and Early National period. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Colonial, Revolutionary and Early National American history, as well as Early American constitutional and legal history. Her upcoming manuscript, Defiantly Neutral: The Deep Roots of Quaker Pacifism in Pennsylvania, investigates the experiences of Quakers in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania.