Description: Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp, Hardcover by Beauchamp, Jereboam O.; Beauchamp, Ann; Bamberg, Robert D. (EDT), ISBN 1512810053, ISBN-13 9781512810059, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In 1826, Jereboam 0. Beauchamp was sentenced to hang for assassinating Col. Solomon P. Sharp, an older man who Beachamp claimed had seduced his young wife prior to their marriage. In prison, Beauchamp wrote his Confession, which was published after his hanging. The fact that his wife committed suicide in his jail cell and was buried in the same coffin with him led to the incidents wide renown as "The Kentucky Tragedy." In addition, the Confession was extensively reprinted in cheap pamphlets during the nineteenth century, and it has inspired a number of novels, plays, short stories, and folk songs, the best known of which are Edgar Allan Poes Politian, William Gilmore Simmss Charlemont and Beauchampe, and Robert Penn Warrens World Enough and Time.
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Book Title: Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Number of Pages: 146 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 1966
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: United States / 19th Century
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Jereboam O. Beauchamp, Ann Beauchamp
Item Width: 5.2 in
Series: Anniversary Collection
Format: Hardcover
