The Institution of Marriage in a Great Detail (564 words, 1 pages)
The Free Women of Petersburg, Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1861, was written by Suzanne Lebsock in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize in 1985. Lebsock focuses on Petersburg, Virginia between 1784 and 1860 to recount the status of women in society, and how that status changed. She ...
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