Escaping Matrimony

A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-24
Mått154 x 232 x 30 mm
Vikt1 520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor414
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666910902

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Acknowledgments“Bed and Board”: An Introduction to Reading Advertisement Regarding the Peculiar Business of Eloping Spouses.Note on NoticesNote on NewspapersChapter 1: Elopement Advertisements in the Southern ColoniesChapter 2: Elopement Advertisements in the New England ColoniesChapter 3: Elopement Advertisements in the Mid-Atlantic ColoniesAppendix A: Anthony AfterwitAppendix B: Benjamin Franklin to John AlleyneAppendix C: David Ramsey’s A Sermon on TeaAppendix DGlossaryAbout the Author

Antonio T. Bly’s Escaping Matrimony is a remarkable example of the power of social history to unlock the voices of ordinary women and men. Pulling together a seemingly disparate collection of newspaper ads and flyers, Bly provides the reader with a new understanding of 18th marital discord, the always unstable balance of power between wife and husband, and the way in which assumptions of masculine and feminine roles present themselves in the public display of marital grievances. At the same time, this rich collection of “elopement documents” reveals the role these announcements played in creating and sustaining a community ethos. Scholars of the 18th century will welcome this treasure trove of primary sources.