To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790Univ of North Carolina Press, 8 dec 2006 - 344 pagina's Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women. Gundersen argues that women's lives varied greatly depending on race and class, but all women had to work within shifting parameters that enabled opportunities for some while constraining opportunities for others. Three generations of women in three households personalize these changes: Elizabeth Dutoy Porter, member of the small-planter class whose Virginia household included an African American enslaved woman named Peg; Deborah Franklin, common-law wife of the prosperous revolutionary, Benjamin; and Margaret Brant, matriarch of a prominent Mohawk family who sided with the British during the war. This edition incorporates substantial revisions in the text and the notes to take into account the scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication in 1996. |
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Pagina xiv
... black women appear in these studies, they are absent from the conclusions. American Indian women appear rarely. It is my contention that when we step back to look at the multiple peoples who lived and interacted within the bounds of the ...
... black women appear in these studies, they are absent from the conclusions. American Indian women appear rarely. It is my contention that when we step back to look at the multiple peoples who lived and interacted within the bounds of the ...
Pagina 5
... consent necessary to marry. Before the American Revolution, ministers married only a handful of enslaved blacks in Virginia, all of whom had become active church members. Peg and Joseph were also The Worlds of Their Mothers (5.
... consent necessary to marry. Before the American Revolution, ministers married only a handful of enslaved blacks in Virginia, all of whom had become active church members. Peg and Joseph were also The Worlds of Their Mothers (5.
Pagina 6
... black women of King William Parish had fewer children than white women, saw more of their children die in infancy, and were at greater risk of miscarriage due to the farm labor they continued to do right up to the birth of the child ...
... black women of King William Parish had fewer children than white women, saw more of their children die in infancy, and were at greater risk of miscarriage due to the farm labor they continued to do right up to the birth of the child ...
Pagina 25
... black population equal to or greater than their white.≤Ω As Deborah Franklin walked through her city in the 1740s ... black. By 1745 New York City was 21 percent black. Two neighboring counties also had substantial black populations ...
... black population equal to or greater than their white.≤Ω As Deborah Franklin walked through her city in the 1740s ... black. By 1745 New York City was 21 percent black. Two neighboring counties also had substantial black populations ...
Pagina 26
... black residential enclave. Many, like the poet Phillis Wheatley, arrived as children and became thoroughly acculturated. Wheatley, probably born in Senegal, was about seven or eight when John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston purchased her ...
... black residential enclave. Many, like the poet Phillis Wheatley, arrived as children and became thoroughly acculturated. Wheatley, probably born in Senegal, was about seven or eight when John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston purchased her ...
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3 The Silken Cord | 45 |
4 Mistress and Servant | 67 |
5 Dutiful Daughters and Independent Minds | 89 |
6 Sisters of the Spirit | 109 |
7 An Injurious and Ill Judging World | 133 |
8 The Garden Within | 153 |
9 Daughters of Liberty | 173 |
10 Mothers of the Republic | 201 |
Essay on the Sources | 219 |
Notes | 237 |
Index | 315 |
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