Aug 3 • 4M

I Lighted Them Downstairs

More language observations from the "first recorded murder trial in US history."

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John McWhorter

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Writer Edith Wharton, lighted up brilliantly by the sun.

Additional thoughts on the transcript of a 200-year-old murder trial.

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