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  • Robert Love's Warnings

    Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston

    Series series Early American Studies
    In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and legal basis of the practice and the religious and humanistic vision of those who enforced it.Historians Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. ... Read more

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  • Robert Love's Warnings

    Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston

    Series series Early American Studies
    In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and legal basis of the practice and the religious and humanistic vision of those who enforced it.Historians Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. ... Read more

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  • Women Before the Bar

    Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women’s participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions — including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women’s relation to ... Read more

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