Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions

by Kirsten Sword

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. John Davis began the exchange after Eunice left him, with a notice resembling the ads about runaway slaves and servants that were a common feature of eighteenth-century newspapers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022675748X
• ISBN13: 9780226757483
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"