Antonio T. Bly

Escaping Matrimony (eBook, ePUB)

A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666910919
• Artikelnr.: 67973540

Autorenporträt

Antonio T. Bly is Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History at California State University, Sacramento.

Inhaltsangabe

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