Sexuality on trial in colonial America

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In seventeen seventy four, the As Britain's colonies in America teeth on the brink of revolution. One regiment was torn apart by the trials of a chaplain who Robert Newburgh. who'd been accused of having sex with another man.

In today's episode, John Gilbert McCurdy, historian and author of Vicious and Immoral, Homosexuality, The American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newberg, joins Eleanor Evans. To discuss what the trials can tell us about perceptions of homosexuality. In the early United States. We are talking today about a series of late eighteenth century trials that revolve or intersect with one man, Robert Newburgh, which cover a raft of fascinating topics, from sexuality in Britain's colonies in America to subversion of hierarchy and the evolution of ideas of individual liberty. John, thank you so much for joining me. And can we start with an introduction from you to Robert Newberg?

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