In 'Covered With Night,' Nicole Eustace explores differing views of justice, grief in early America
The book looks at the ramifications of a violent encounter between two white fur traders and an Indigenous hunter in 1722.
Dec 16, 2021
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with New York University professor Nicole Eustace about her book “Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America,” which looks at the ramifications of a violent encounter between two white fur traders and an Indigenous hunter in 1722.
Book excerpt: ‘Covered with Night’
By Nicole Eustace
INTRODUCTION
Toward the end of 1721, a Quaker man named Isaac Norris discovered an alarming prediction in The American Almanack for the Year of Christian Account, 1722. A local magistrate, successful merchant, and gentleman farmer, Norris had stepped into the printshop at the Sign of the Bible on Second Street in Philadelphia looking for weather predictions,
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