Author: Ernest H. Alderman
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The North Carolina Colonial Bar
Author: Ernest H. Alderman
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Women Before the Bar
Author: Cornelia Hughes Dayton
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution. Using the court records of New Haven, which originally had the most Puritan-dominated legal regime of all the colonies, Dayton argues that Puritanism's insistence on godly behavior and communal modes of disputing initially created unusual opportunities for women's voices to be heard within the legal system. But women's presence in the courts declined significantly over time as Puritan beliefs lost their status as the organizing principles of society, as legal practice began to adhere more closely to English patriarchal models, as the economy became commercialized, and as middle-class families developed an ethic of privacy. By demonstrating that the early eighteenth century was a crucial locus of change in law, economy, and gender ideology, Dayton's findings argue for a reconceptualization of women's status in colonial New England and for a new periodization of women's history.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-seventeenth century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution. Using the court records of New Haven, which originally had the most Puritan-dominated legal regime of all the colonies, Dayton argues that Puritanism's insistence on godly behavior and communal modes of disputing initially created unusual opportunities for women's voices to be heard within the legal system. But women's presence in the courts declined significantly over time as Puritan beliefs lost their status as the organizing principles of society, as legal practice began to adhere more closely to English patriarchal models, as the economy became commercialized, and as middle-class families developed an ethic of privacy. By demonstrating that the early eighteenth century was a crucial locus of change in law, economy, and gender ideology, Dayton's findings argue for a reconceptualization of women's status in colonial New England and for a new periodization of women's history.
James Sprunt Historical Mongraphs
Author: Charles S. Cooke
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Bartlett Yancey. The Political and Professional Career of Bartlett Yancy. Letters to Bartlett Yancey
Author: Charles S. Cooke
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Slaveholding in North Carolina
Author: Rosser Howard Taylor
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Biennial Report of the Librarian of the North Carolina State Library
Author: North Carolina State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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A History of the American Bar
Author: Charles Warren
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone ; The Provincial Agents of North Carolina
Author: Bartlett Yancey Malone
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Harrington Letters
Author: Henry McGilbert Wagstaff
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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A Bibliography of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina State Library
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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