Author: MissouriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Missouri in October, November and December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen
Author: MissouriThe Southern Debate over Slavery
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
An incomparably rich source of period information, the second volume of The Southern Debate over Slavery offers a representative and extraordinary sampling of the thousands of petitions about issues of race and slavery that southerners submitted to county courts between the American Revolution and Civil War. These petitions, filed by slaveholders and nonslaveholders, slaves and free blacks, women and men, abolitionists and staunch defenders of slavery, constitute a uniquely important primary source. The collection records with great immediacy and minute detail the dynamics and legal restrictions that shaped southern society.
William Clark Breckenridge, Historical Research Writer and Bibliographer of Missouriana
Author: James Malcolm BreckenridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Doniphan's Expedition, 1846-1847
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas
Author: ArkansasThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fourteenth Congress of the United States
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Acts of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri
Author: MissouriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Laws of a Public and General Nature
Author: MissouriCitizen Bachelors
Author: John Gilbert McCurdyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457807
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment, sometimes grudgingly, and the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.
Author: United States