The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America

Early American Studies

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

253 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's parado...

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