Escaping Matrimony : A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America

Name: Escaping Matrimony
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9781666910902
Price: 19750 KES
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ISBN: 9781666910902

by Antonio T. Bly

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1666910902

ISBN-13 9781666910902

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Lexington Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 24th, 2023

Print length 414 Pages

Weight 758 grams

Dimensions 15.70 x 23.70 x 3.50 cms

Product Classification: United States of America, USA History of the Americas Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Social & cultural history Sociology: family & relationships Sociology: family, kinship and relationships History History of the Americas Social and cultural history

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This study is a collection of elopement advertisements printed in newspapers throughout British North America.

Escaping Matrimony is a documentary history of hundreds of husbands and wives who ran away from one another over the course of the eighteenth-century. In this collection of elopement advertisements, men and women protested marriage, challenged coverture, and declared themselves independent and free. In an endeavor to discredit and intimidated their spouses, husbands and wives used early American newspapers to achieved at once voice and agency in a complex world that would have preferred that they endured unnoticed and in silence.

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