The Murder Trial of Ann Simpson: Marriage, Medicine, and Law in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina

On November 12, 1850, Ann Simpson stood in a Fayetteville, North Carolina, courtroom. Prosecutors accused her of being in league with the devil, of visiting a fortune teller, of committing adultery, and of murdering her husband by poisoning his food. This book provides the first scholarly examination of the murder trial of Ann Simpson.

In The Murder Trial of Ann Simpson, author Christopher Thrasher explains who Ann Simpson was and traces her crooked path from a member of one of North Carolin...