Escaping Matrimony
A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2023
414 pages
978-1-6669-1091-9 (ISBN)
Description
Escaping Matrimony is a documentary history of hundreds of husbands and wives who ran away from one another over the course of the eighteenth-century. In this collection of elopement advertisements, men and women protested marriage, challenged coverture, and declared themselves independent and free. In an endeavor to discredit and intimidated their spouses, husbands and wives used early American newspapers to achieved at once voice and agency in a complex world that would have preferred that they endured unnoticed and in silence.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-1091-9 (9781666910919)
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Other editions
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Book
05/2023
Lexington Books
€131.10
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Person
Antonio T. Bly is the Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History at California State University, Sacramento.
Content
Acknowledgments
"Bed and Board": An Introduction to Reading Advertisement Regarding the Peculiar Business of Eloping Spouses.
Note on Notices
Note on Newspapers
Chapter 1: Elopement Advertisements in the Southern Colonies
Chapter 2: Elopement Advertisements in the New England Colonies
Chapter 3: Elopement Advertisements in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Appendix A: Anthony Afterwit
Appendix B: Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyne
Appendix C: David Ramsey's A Sermon on Tea
Appendix D
Glossary
About the Author
"Bed and Board": An Introduction to Reading Advertisement Regarding the Peculiar Business of Eloping Spouses.
Note on Notices
Note on Newspapers
Chapter 1: Elopement Advertisements in the Southern Colonies
Chapter 2: Elopement Advertisements in the New England Colonies
Chapter 3: Elopement Advertisements in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Appendix A: Anthony Afterwit
Appendix B: Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyne
Appendix C: David Ramsey's A Sermon on Tea
Appendix D
Glossary
About the Author
