Professor John McCurdy
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And so this leads to the speculation that there's been seduction going on.
And the army never comes out and says these two have had sex because if they were to make that argument.
We possibly are looking at the death penalty for both of these men.
But instead, the army is gets into this sort of idea of it's been he's this man has been seduced.
This young man is being manipulated to to attack the army, to take down the.
the British Empire to take down the king.
And the piece here, it's interesting, is it does build upon sort of speculation at the time.
So servant could be a euphemism for sex worker in this time.
And we do know, again, I have never found stories of this in the American context, but there's many stories in the European context of young soldiers would sell their bodies to older officers for money.
You know, it's like women.
It's a way of making a quick buck.
Yeah, it's a long trial.
It takes place in New York in 1774.
So not that long before the shots are fired at Lexington and Concord.
It's a long, complicated trial because by the time it gets to this court-martial, there are several other cases are all converging into this one.
And so it's really interesting because the army has to – says we're not going to prosecute this guy for sodomy.
That's too complicated and they don't have proof.
So instead they get into all these insinuations, inferences.
This is where they talk about his character, his clothing, how he relates to other men.
And ultimately they sort of split the deal.
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