Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
Laura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University. She is the award-winning author of A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. This is her first project that connects her longstanding needlework interests with her historical work.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange Part Three: Rags Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Elizabeth's and Caty's Failed Escapes: The Materials of Legal Meaning Part One: Old Clothes in a New Country Chapter 1: Polly's Yarn: Legal Principles Chapter 2: Roger Taney's Long Underwear: Federalism Chapter 3: Mr. Robinson's Failure: Merchants Chapter 4: Rebecca Coles's Factory: Manufacturers Part Two: Protective Coverings in a Hostile World Chapter 5: The Prison Society's Problem: Currency Chapter 6: Jane Cooley's Loom: Capital Chapter 7: Margaret Ten Eyck's Accounts: Credit Chapter 8: Eliza Cauchois's Shift: Exchange Part Three: Rags Chapter 9: Sarah Allingham's Sheet: Enforcement Chapter 10: Catherine Brennan's Haul: Criminality Chapter 11: Charles Lohman's Silk Dresses: Suppression Chapter 12: Mrs. Harris's Marriage: Erasure Conclusion: Mary Todd Lincoln's Old Clothes: Just Material Notes Bibliography Index
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