Sketches of the life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro
Subtitle: who was executed at New-Haven, on the 20th day of October, 1790, for a rape, committed on the 26th day of May last. : (The writer of this history has directed that the money arising from the sales thereof, after deducting the expence of printing, &c. be given to the unhappy girl, whose life is rendered wretched by the crime of the malefactor.)
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 22441
Publisher: Printed and sold by T. & S. Green.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: New-Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Rape; African American criminals; Executions and executioners
Notes: First-person narrative, prepared by David Daggett (cf. Dexter's Yale graduates) and signed by Mountain. "The writer of the following narrative assures the public, that the facts related were taken from the mouth of the culprit."--note, p. [20], signed: Joseph Peck. Samuel Punderson.

The title page has an ornamental border of skulls and crossbones. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription.

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Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1132