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 2
... Elizabeth and Thomas Porter awaited the birth of a child in the fall. They had three living children: John, age six, Elizabeth, age four, and two-year-old Dutoy, just recently weaned. They 2) The Worlds of Their Mothers.
... Elizabeth and Thomas Porter awaited the birth of a child in the fall. They had three living children: John, age six, Elizabeth, age four, and two-year-old Dutoy, just recently weaned. They 2) The Worlds of Their Mothers.
Pagina 3
... John Lucadou in 1732. Then the nearly fifty-year-old Barbara turned over management of the farm to Thomas and Elizabeth Porter. This was a natural decision, for Pierre Dutoy had specified that Elizabeth should receive the farm upon her ...
... John Lucadou in 1732. Then the nearly fifty-year-old Barbara turned over management of the farm to Thomas and Elizabeth Porter. This was a natural decision, for Pierre Dutoy had specified that Elizabeth should receive the farm upon her ...
Pagina 4
... John, another Elizabeth, and Dutoy. Now in her thirties, Elizabeth Dutoy Porter began spacing her children farther apart. William (the child she was carrying in 1740) was born thirty-three months after Dutoy. Sara, Ann, Marie, and Isaac ...
... John, another Elizabeth, and Dutoy. Now in her thirties, Elizabeth Dutoy Porter began spacing her children farther apart. William (the child she was carrying in 1740) was born thirty-three months after Dutoy. Sara, Ann, Marie, and Isaac ...
Pagina 5
... John, and Dutoy probably slept with their parents, or perhaps with their grandmother. Where Peg and the other slaves slept is uncertain. They may have gone to the kitchen and barn or slept in the house.∞≠ Peg and Joseph were almost ...
... John, and Dutoy probably slept with their parents, or perhaps with their grandmother. Where Peg and the other slaves slept is uncertain. They may have gone to the kitchen and barn or slept in the house.∞≠ Peg and Joseph were almost ...
Pagina 26
... John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston purchased her as a domestic in 1760. Though educated and encouraged in many ways by the Wheatley family, Phillis never crossed a subtle racial line. She ate her meals sitting at a separate table near ...
... John and Susanna Wheatley of Boston purchased her as a domestic in 1760. Though educated and encouraged in many ways by the Wheatley family, Phillis never crossed a subtle racial line. She ate her meals sitting at a separate table near ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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Pagina 262 - John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 277-294; Jack P.
Pagina 308 - The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady; whose life and character are peculiarly distinguished — being a continental soldier, for nearly three years, in the late American war.