Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States
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Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States
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- Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States
- Title remainder
- clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura F. Edwards
- Subject
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- Equality before the law -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Law -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Poor laws -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Property -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Textile fabrics -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Textile industry -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. | History -- 19th century
- Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ordinary people and how they made use of their material goods' economic and legal value in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War. Only the Clothes on Her Back uncovers practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles-clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats-a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange. The value of textiles depended on law, and it was law that turned these goods into a secure form of property for marginalized people, who not only used these textiles as currency, credit, and capital, but also as entree into the new republic's economy and governing institutions. Edwards grounds the laws relating to textiles in engaging stories from the lives of everyday Americans. Wives wove linen and kept the proceeds, enslaved people traded coats and shoes, and poor people invested in fabrics, which they carefully preserved in trunks. Edwards shows that these stories are about far more than cloth and clothing; they reshape our understanding of law and the economy in America
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- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- Dewey number
- 391.0097309034
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Stephanie Richardson
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
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