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Hannah : The Condemned Child

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Overview

In December 1786, a small Connecticut town gathered behind its meeting house to witness a hanging. The condemned was Hannah Ocuish, twelve years old.

Told through the surviving record-especially the execution sermon printed on the day she died- Hannah: The Condemned Child traces the case from a summer morning on the road outside New London to the courtroom, the gaol, the pulpit, and the scaffold. It asks how fear hardens into certainty, how a child's words are filtered through adult authority, and how print can turn a girl into an "example" for generations to come.

Written in a restrained, documentary style, this book explores:

  • what the sources claim-and what they leave out

  • childhood, culpability, and punishment in early America

  • poverty, placement, and the "management" of unwanted children

  • the making of moral theatre through sermons, courts, and crowds

Content note: this book discusses the killing of a child and the execution of a child.

This item is Non-Returnable

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798250688857
  • ISBN-10: 9798250688857
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: March 2026
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.25 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.26 pounds
  • Page Count: 118

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