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02654aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 EB72ADC29C5111ECB7AFE6A450ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220305010014 008 210518t20222022nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780197568576 020 $a 0197568572 035 $a (OCoLC)1251506372 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d IBV $d YDX $d BUP $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Edwards, Laura F., $e author. 245 10 $a Only the clothes on her back : $b clothing and the hidden history of power in the nineteenth-century United States / $c Laura F. Edwards. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xiii, 433 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-415) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. Elizabeth's and Caty's failed escapes : the materials of legal meaning -- Part I. Old clothes in a new country. Polly's yarn : legal principles ; Roger Taney's long underwear : federalism ; Mr. Robinson's fabrics : merchants ; Rebecca Coles's factory : manufacturers -- Part II. Protective coverings in a hostile world. The Prison Society's problem : currency ; Jane Cooley's loom : capital ; Margaret Ten Eyck's accounts : credit ; Eliza Cauchois's shift : exchange -- Part III. Rags. Sarah Allingham's sheet : enforcement ; Catherine Brennan's haul : criminality ; Charles Lohman's dresses : suppression ; Mrs. Harris's marriage : erasure -- Conclusion. Mrs. Lincoln's old clothes : just material. 520 $a "What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ordinary people and how they made use of their material goods' economic and legal value in the period between the Revolution and the Civil War"--Dust jacket. 650 0 $a Clothing and dress $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Property $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Textile fabrics $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Textile industry $x Law and legislation. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Poor laws $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Law $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Equality before the law $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20230602011142.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220305010354.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB72ADC29C5111ECB7AFE6A450ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search