Guilty of Cruelty: The Brutal History of York, Maine

In 1692, a raiding party burned York, Maine to the ground, killed the town's own minister at his front door, and marched eighty of its people into the Canadian wilderness. It would not be the town's only reckoning with violence.Guilty of Cruelty traces four centuries of law, war, and punishment in one of America's oldest towns. From a 1644 hanging built on rumor and a corpse's ordinary decay, to a...