Book #86192
Mr. Seward for the Defense.
Conrad, Earl. Mr. Seward for the Defense. New York: Rinehart & Company, [1956]. Second printing. x, 306 pp. Publisher's brown cloth very good, in lightly worn dust jacket. Previous owner's signatures and bookplates of Michael C. Michaelson to pastedowns and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy. $35. * This book focuses on William H. Seward, [1801-1872], (later Lincoln's Secretary of State) and his decision to defend William Freeman, a Black man accused of a brutal mass murder in Auburn, New York. The 1846 trial was especially notable for its use of the insanity defense of the defendant.
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