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Only the clothes on her back : clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States / Laura F. Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Laura F., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- African Americans.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- Clothing and dress.
- Equality before the law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- 'Only the Clothes on Her Back' illuminates the ways in which women, men of colour, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access the legal system and to exercise political power.
- Contents:
- Polly's yarn : legal principles
- Roger Taney's long underwear : federalism
- Mr. Robinson's fabrics : merchants
- Rebecca Coles' factory : manufacturers
- The prison society's problem : currency
- Jane Cooley's loom : Capital
- Margaret Ten Eyck's accounts : credit
- Eliza Cauchois's shift : exchange
- Sarah Allingham's sheet : enforcement
- Catherine Brennan's Haul : criminality
- Charles Lohman's dresses : suppression
- Mrs. Harris's marriage : erasure. conclusion
- Mrs. Lincoln's old clothes : just material.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Edwards, Laura F. Only the Clothes on Her Back
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756858-0
- 0-19-756860-2
- 0-19-756859-9
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