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Escaping Matrimony
A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America
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About this book
Escaping Matrimony is a documentary history of hundreds of husbands and wives who ran away from one another over the course of the eighteenth-century. In this collection of elopement advertisements, men and women protested marriage, challenged coverture, and declared themselves independent and free. In an endeavor to discredit and intimidated their spouses, husbands and wives used early American newspapers to achieved at once voice and agency in a complex world that would have preferred that they endured unnoticed and in silence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- “Bed and Board”: An Introduction to Reading Advertisements Regarding the Peculiar Business of Eloping Spouses
- A Note on the Notices
- A Note on the Newspapers
- Chapter 1 Elopement Advertisements in the Southern Colonies
- Chapter 2 Elopement Advertisements in the New England Colonies
- Chapter 3 Elopement Advertisements in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
- Appendix A: Anthony Afterwit, 10 July 1732
- Appendix B: Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyne
- Appendix C: David Ramsey’s A Sermon on Tea. 1773
- Appendix D: [Anonymous Author] News from the Moon. Containing a Brief Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants: Very Suitable to the Present Times
- Glossary
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author
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