"The Murder of a "Lewd and Abandoned Woman

Journal Article The Murder of a “Lewd and Abandoned Woman”: State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker Get access Judith Kelleher Schafer Judith Kelleher Schafer Associate Director Murphy Institute Of Political Economy, Visiting Professor of Law, Adjunct Associate Professor of History *Tulane University, Tulane Law School. This paper is part of a larger study of prostitution and the law in antebellum New Orleans, to be entitled “‘Les Nymphs de Pave’: Prostitution in New Orleans, 1846–1862.” The author wishes to thank Marie Windell, archivist of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Wayne Everard and Irene Wainwright of the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library, Wilbur Meneray of Special Collections of the Howard-Tilton Library of Tulane University, and Kevin Hourihan of the Tulane Law School Library for their assistance with research materials. She is also grateful to Bennett H. Wall, Warren M. Billings, and Catherine Clinton for their thoughtful comments on the manuscript. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 19–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/846254 Published: 01 January 2000

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