John Wood Sweet’s “The Sewing Girl’s Tale” tells the story of an unusual prosecution in 18th-century New York — and its contemporary relevance.
Sweet is a UNC professor of history. His new book, The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America (Henry Holt & Company) is reviewed in The New York Times.
The Times calls the book “an excellent and absorbing work of social and cultural history.”