Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

Jan Ellen Lewis, Barry Bienstock,Annette Gordon-Reed,Peter Onuf

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781469665641
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Frühe amerikanische Geschichte

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.

INDEX

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...