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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... 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 Mothers of the Republic 201 Essay on the Sources 219 Notes ...
... 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 Mothers of the Republic 201 Essay on the Sources 219 Notes ...
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... servants in the Manakin community when Elizabeth was young.≤ Her parents had arrived in Virginia as part of an organized resettlement of French Protestants who had been refugees in Europe for nearly two decades. Thus, the Virginia-born ...
... servants in the Manakin community when Elizabeth was young.≤ Her parents had arrived in Virginia as part of an organized resettlement of French Protestants who had been refugees in Europe for nearly two decades. Thus, the Virginia-born ...
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... servant.∞∫ Philadelphia, however, was a setting very di√erent from rural Virginia. By 1740 Philadelphia had overtaken Boston as the largest city in the British American colonies. The city was a commercial port, and Deborah could hear ...
... servant.∞∫ Philadelphia, however, was a setting very di√erent from rural Virginia. By 1740 Philadelphia had overtaken Boston as the largest city in the British American colonies. The city was a commercial port, and Deborah could hear ...
Pagina 9
... servants moved in and out, helping with work and family chores. Nine-year-old Deborah Croker, Deborah Franklin's niece, had just joined the household. Benjamin's nephew James moved in shortly after the Franklins' son Francis (''Franky ...
... servants moved in and out, helping with work and family chores. Nine-year-old Deborah Croker, Deborah Franklin's niece, had just joined the household. Benjamin's nephew James moved in shortly after the Franklins' son Francis (''Franky ...
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... servants or slaves, like Peg, doing many of the heavier chores. Margaret's moves, the high family mortality rate, and the direct e√ects of endemic war would have been familiar to American Indian women anywhere east of The Worlds of ...
... servants or slaves, like Peg, doing many of the heavier chores. Margaret's moves, the high family mortality rate, and the direct e√ects of endemic war would have been familiar to American Indian women anywhere east of The Worlds of ...
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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.