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Doomed and damned by her aristocratic family, she was the most reviled woman in Jeffersonian America!

 Defamed vividly portrays the scandalous journey of Nancy Randolph (1774-1837). Born into Virginia’s oldest dynasty, Nancy was cast out of her privileged world and driven into obscurity. Accused of prostitution, miscegenation, incest and murder, her alleged misdeeds resulted in a sensational trial that shocked the country. But was this eighteenth-century Lucrezia Borgia guilty as charged? Set against the turbulent background of our young, emerging republic and populated by larger-than-life characters Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Dolley Madison and Gouvernor Morris, Defamed reveals some unsettling truths about our nation alongside Nancy’s courageous struggle for redemption.

 

From Defamed: “Virginia in the late eighteenth-century demanded manners and social dictates all but impossible to comprehend today. Honor was essential commodity as much about survival as pride. If a gentleman’s good name was sullied, whether genuinely or merely perceived as such, he was deemed unworthy of holding public office, unable to secure a loan and without social peers to provide crucial business connections. Ladies fared far worse. Social peccadilloes made public could savage a genteel reputation, the worst offense of course being loss of virtue. If a woman bore a child out of wedlock, gentlemen dismissed her as damaged goods, and she was relegated to life as a family ward. What befell those poor souls without kin was unimaginable.”