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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 the legal system and to exercise political power.

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a dynamic history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War -- a history that focuses on the women who made up the fabric of southern life before and during the war and remade themselves and their world after it.Establishing the household as the central institution of southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political righ...

Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links post-Civil War transformations in private and public life. She illustrates how ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners - elite and poor, white and black, Democrat and Republican - envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reco...

This book provides a succinct and accessible account of the critical role of legal and constitutional issues of the American Civil War.

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In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice. Placing slaves, free blacks, and white women at the center of the story, Edwards recasts traditional narratives of legal and political ...