To Her Credit

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421440552

Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities

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By Sara T. Damiano
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Sara T. Damiano is an assistant professor of history at Texas State University.

Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "To the advantage of herself & the honorable support of her Family": Women and the Urban Credit Economy 2. "She Hath Often Requested the Sum": Credit Relations Outside of Court 3. "And Thereon She Sues": Debt Litigation, Lawyers, and Legal Practices 4. "I saw and heard": The Knowledge and Power of Witnesses 5. "Laboring under many difficulties and hardships": The Problem of Debt and Vocabularies of Grievance 6. "According to your judgments": Redefining Financial Work in the Late Eighteenth Century Conclusion Appendix: Sources and Sampling for the Quantitative Analysis of Debt Cases Notes Essay on Sources Index

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