To Punish and Protect: Communal Responses to Infanticide in the Early Venezuelan Republic, 1830s–1860s.

Following independence (1830), there was a surge of court cases regarding infanticide in the Venezuelan province of Mérida. The defendants in all these cases were the mothers of the deceased; all were poor, illiterate, single women. Civilians initiated all of these cases, by informing the authoritie...

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Published in:	Journal of Social History Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 46 - 65
Main Author:	Zahler, Reuben
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Fall2025
Subjects:	Mérida (Venezuela) Infanticide Women criminals Communities Trials (Infanticide) Legal testimony Community attitudes
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