The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America

by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Book Overview

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 paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's work--boarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcohol--but her customers, like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221591
• ISBN13: 9780812221596
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"