| Description |
viii, 516 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Perspectives on the American Revolution |
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Perspectives on the American Revolution.
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| Contents |
"History can do it no justice" : women and the reinterpretation of the American Revolution / Linda K. Kerber -- Inheritance and the social history of early American women / Daniel Scott Smith -- Widows in rural Massachusetts on the eve of the revolution / Gloria L. Main -- Men's wills and women's property rights in colonial New York / David E. Narrett -- Early American women and control over capital / Carole Shammas -- Inheritance in the colonial Chesapeake / Lois Green Carr -- "Daughters of liberty" : religious women in revolutionary New England / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- Mama, Rachel, and Molly : three generations of Carroll women / Sally D. Mason -- Race, sex, and self-evident truths : the status of slave women during the era of the American Revolution / Jacqueline Jones -- Anglo-American racism and Phillis Wheatley's "Sable veil," "Length'ned chain," and "Knitted heart" / David Grimsted -- Republican sentiment, economic change, and the property rights of women in American law / Marylynn Salmon -- Reflections on women in the age of the American Revolution / Mary Beth Norton. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women.
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| Added Author |
Hoffman, Ronald, 1941-2018
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Albert, Peter J.
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United States Capitol Historical Society.
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| ISBN |
0813912164 |
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