4 - Rose Butler
“… more malignant than murder”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Summary
This chapter centers on the actions of Rose Butler, a teenaged term slave in New York. Rose and her accomplices set her owners’ home on fire in 1818 to avenge her mistress’s poor treatment.
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- Brooding over Bloody RevengeEnslaved Women's Lethal Resistance, pp. 87 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023