Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
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Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

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Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

About this book

One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis (1949-2018) transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays defined the emerging fields of gender and emotions history and reframed traditional understandings of the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As significant as her work was within each of these subfields, her most remarkable insights came from the connections she drew among them. Gender and race, slavery and freedom, feelings and politics ran together in the hearts, minds, and lives of the men and women she studied. Lewis’s brilliant research revealed these long-buried connections and illuminated their importance for America’s past and present.

Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis’s most important essays. Distinguished scholars shed light on the historical and historiographical contexts in which Lewis and her peers researched, wrote, and argued. But the real star of this volume is Lewis herself: confident, unconventional, erudite, and deeply imaginative.

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INDEX

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Abbott, John, 138, 148, 150–151
Abolitionists. See Antislavery
Adams, Abigail, 95–96, 99, 392–393
Adams, Abigail (Nabby), 299
Adams, Henry, 396
Adams, John, 24, 61, 95–97, 226–228, 256n. 3, 257, 292, 388
Adams, John Quincy: on Three-Fifths Clause, 220–221, 228–230, 247n. 44; on women’s political capacity, 230–232, 238
Advice literature, 112, 135, 139–153, 155
Affection, 136–137; and social bonds, 20, 45, 80, 114, 148, 172, 196n. 20, 199, 347; in republican marriage, 25–27, 30–31, 44–45, 55, 342–343; as sustaining a social vision, 112–114, 141, 159, 163–165, 170–171, 301, 346; as scripted, 123–125, 128, 131, 133–134, 288; as nurtured in the family, 136, 139, 167, 288, 347; in Thomas Jefferson’s private letters, 165, 310–312, 344; and public esteem, 314, 316, 320, 340
African Americans: enfranchisement of (free male), 87–88, 90, 92, 97, 100–104, 193, 247, 248–251; and citizenship, 183, 206–209, 211, 238–240, 242–245, 251; in social compact, 223–224. See also Race; Slaves
Agriculture, in Thomas Jefferson’s political economy, 302–306
Aliens: and citizenship, 17–18, 206, 226, 234, 236, 244; and enfranchisement, 87–88, 90, 92, 97, 101–104; and naturalization, 94–95, 208
Anglican Church, in colonial Virginia, 132–133
Antebellum period. See Motherhood; Separate spheres; Webster, Daniel
Anthony, Susan B., 85n. 1, 248–249
Antislavery, 57, 183, 208, 218, 220–223, 230, 232, 234–238, 247, 263, 279–280; and the Constitution, 181, 235, 279–280; and sl...

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Jan Ellen Lewis: Historian and Writer
  7. Gender in the Early American Republic: Gender in the Early Republic: The Scholarship of Jan Ellen Lewis
  8. The History of Emotions: Emotion and the Pursuit of Historical Insight in the Work of Jan Ellen Lewis
  9. Constitutional and Legal History: Jan Ellen Lewis’s Constitution
  10. Jefferson Studies: Jan Ellen Lewis’s Thomas Jefferson: Domestic Life and Family Values
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Index
  13. Back Cover