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72: The Revenge of Hannah Duston w/ Jay Atkinson - A True Crime History Podcast

2017/10/8
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Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

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My guest, Jay Atkinson, author of "Massacre on the Merrimack", tells the notorious and controversial story of Hannah Duston. After members of the Abenaki tribe captured her and her newborn infant in March of 1697, they killed her baby on a forced march north. Duston got her revenge by killing and scalping ten of her captors, including six children, and fleeing by canoe back to her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

More about the author: https://www.bu.edu/writingprogram/people/writing-program-faculty/jay-atkinson/

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