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Celtic women and white guilt: Frankie Silver and Chipita Rodriguez in folk memory.
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MELUS
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March 22, 2003| Author:
Jennings, Rachel
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Frankie Silver, a white woman from the mountains of North Carolina, was hanged in March 1832 for axe-murdering her husband and then chopping his body into pieces in order to hide her crime. Josefa (Chipita) Rodriguez, a Mexican American woman from the South Texas town of San Patricio, was hanged in 1863 for axe-murdering John Savage. A trader on the Confederate Cotton Road to Mexico, Savage had frequented her small roadside inn on the banks of the Aransas River. In addition to their...
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