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By Harold Schechter
ISBN-10: 0671014501
ISBN-13: 9780671014506
They name nurses 'angels of mercy' - and to all appearances, Jane Toppan healthy that description. along with her visible competence, she looked to be a delicate, sympathetic girl who had labored for a few of Boston's top households. in fact, none of her employers be aware of something approximately Jane's early years. They didn't find out about her mother's tragic dying whilst Jane used to be simply an baby - or her father's next madness, which impelled him to sew his eyelids jointly sooner or later in his Boston tailor store. They weren't conscious of Jane's personal suicide makes an attempt after being jilted by means of her fiance, or the morbid obsessions she displayed in the course of her pupil nursing years at a Cambridge medical institution, the place her extraordinary fascination with autopsies grew to become a resource of dismay to her supervisors. It wasn't till individuals of the Davis kin all started losing like flies in the summertime of 1901 that the negative fact concerning the expert, doubtless compassionate nurse eventually got here to gentle. faraway from being an 'angel of mercy,' Jane Toppan grew to become out to be considered one of America's so much bloodthirsty 'angels of death.'
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These culminated in the Boston Tea Party of 16 December 1773, when a party of local people raided a ship owned by the East India Company and dumped its cargo of tea into the harbour. The giant company had been given privileges by the Tea Act of May 1773 that would enable it to reduce its prices and compete with smuggled tea. By threatening colo- 40 Organized Crime and American Power nial merchants with a monopoly and smuggling rings with extinction, the Tea Act had thus united two of the strongest local interests.
The British support of the slave trade and campaigns against piracy, detailed in the previous section, were part of a protectionist approach that also intended to exclude foreign commercial rivals from Britain's American markets. Government protection was codified by a series of Navigation Acts passed between 1651 and 1696 and produced Britain's variant of a 'mercantile' system - shorthand for restrictive and monopolistic imperial practices. Under penalty of forfeiture of ships and goods, the laws stated that all vessels importing or exporting goods to or from any English territory, must be English, with English masters, and crews that were three-quarters English.
51 Treachery, theft, and fraud came to characterize the whites' relationship with Natives. Traders and land agents used alcohol to befuddle the senses of their victims and make fair payment a rare event. Thousands of acres of land were, for example, traded for small quantities of tools, weapons, and beads. 52 Troops would often, of course, be required to put down Native resistance to such deals. As Daniel Friedenberg has explained, this massive exercise in land theft created a quandary for the best legal minds in both England and its colonies: Tt is an interesting aspect of English civility that it can never nakedly despoil but must find a respectable basis for action, real estate being no exception.
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