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Book Review
| Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia. By John Ruston Pagan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 222 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-19-514478-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-514479-1.)
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| This marvelous piece of early American legal history not only tells us a good deal about the transfer and adaptation of English law to the seventeenth-century settler societies of British America but presents a gripping story of substantial tragedy and limited triumph among a particular set of men and women on Virginia's Eastern Shore. |
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