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This book restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English language followed the routes of trade and colonialism to become the lingua franca of much of the Atlantic world, women who experienced dispossession and violence on the one hand, and new freedoms and opportunities on the other, wrote about their experiences. This book puts eighteenth-century voices in conversation with one another—English, Scots and Irish women; colonists and indigenous women; Loyalists and Patriots; religious leaders and s ... More
Keywords: feminism, trade, colonialism, dispossession, slaves, free women, religious leaders, violence, actress, indigenous women
Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199743483 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199743483.001.0001 |
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