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Contents |
Introduction: a household band -- Married to the cause: the Weston sisters and antislavery -- Married to each other: marriage, singlehood, and sororal practice -- I must make money: the sororal economy -- The cross of my life: social reproduction in the sororal household -- As if I had never been absent: the household extends its reach -- Yours with the united faculties of Mary and Martha: politics and kin-keeping -- Rocking the nation like a cradle: the political import of households -- Impudent puppies: sisters in the household of faith -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: to be left at Capt. Weston's near wales tavern: on correspondence -- Weston genealogy -- Antislavery chronology. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2014024701 |
ISBN | 9781469618173 (pbk : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 1469618176 (pbk : alk. paper) |