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Vital Records of the Town of Auburn, (Formerly Ward), Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850

Author: Franklin P. Rice
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
"Vital Records of the Town of Auburn, (Formerly Ward), Massachusetts, To the end of the year 1850: With the Inscriptions from the Old Burial Grounds" by Franklin P. Rice Auburn is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. An often overlooked town, the book is a detailed list of the vital statistics of the town. Each family is honored in this book with a complete list of members, along with dates of birth, death dates, ages, and gravestone inscriptions to commit these simple and humble people to memory.

Town Born

Author: Barry Levy
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves. In Town Born, Barry Levy shows that New England's distinctive and far more egalitarian order was due neither to the colonists' peasant traditionalism nor to the region's inhospitable environment. Instead, New England's labor system and relative equality were every bit a consequence of its innovative system of governance, which placed nearly all land under the control of several hundred self-governing town meetings. As Levy shows, these town meetings were not simply sites of empty democratic rituals but were used to organize, force, and reconcile laborers, families, and entrepreneurs into profitable export economies. The town meetings protected the value of local labor by persistently excluding outsiders and privileging the town born. The town-centered political economy of New England created a large region in which labor earned respect, relative equity ruled, workers exercised political power despite doing the most arduous tasks, and the burdens of work were absorbed by citizens themselves. In a closely observed and well-researched narrative, Town Born reveals how this social order helped create the foundation for American society.