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With an Appendix of Illustrative Documents. S0518HB - $45.00
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
"Excellent. . . . historicizes the workings of patriarchy and women's defiance in ways that feminist theory and other disciplinary perspectives may overlook." — Journal of Interdisciplinary History Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in the New Hampshire Gazette—a more common practice for the time and place than contemporary readers might think. After Eunice left him, John Davis posted a notice resembling the ads about runaway slaves and servants that were a common feature of eighteenth-century newspapers. John warned neighbors against "entertaining her or harbouring her. . . or gi...