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Fall River Outrage recounts one of the crucial sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century The united states. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker used to be found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall River and the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church engaged in lively campaigns to procure a favorable verdict. It used to be also one of the most earliest attempts by American lawyers to turn out their client innocent by assassinating the ethical character of the feminine victim. Fall River Outrage provides insight in American social, legal, and labor history in addition to women’s studies.