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- 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 Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2022.
- 300 __ |a xiii, 433 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm.
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 520 __ |a Only the Clothes on Her Back tells the history of law and commerce in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War through textiles and the legal principles associated with them. Those principles existed not in statutes or treatises, but in social and cultural practices, commonly known then, but now long forgotten, which made textiles - clothing, cloth, bedding, and accessories, such as shoes and hats - a unique form of property that people without rights could own and exchange. Textiles' value depended on law, which was what made them a secure form of property for marginalized people, who not only used these goods as currency, credit, and capital, but also as entre into the new republic's economy and governing institutions. Using original archival research, the first part of the book reconstructs the governing order in which textiles' legal principles flourished and follows the implications, recasting our understanding of production and exchange. The second part pieces together the rules that governed trade: trunks established ownership; witness testimony served instead of receipts; accounts were kept in diaries, if they were recorded at all. These practices might seem outside law, but they were not. The third part follows the legal downfall of textiles, showing how the practices associated with them became suspect as the federalism system elevated the possession of rights over other means of making property claims. By the mid-nineteenth century, textiles no longer had the legal power they once had, but most Americans had nothing to replace them.
- 520 __ |a Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access the legal system and to exercise political power.
- 650 _0 |a Property |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 _0 |a Textile fabrics |x Social aspects |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 _0 |a Textile industry |x Law and legislation |z United States.
- 650 _0 |a Women |x Legal status, laws, etc. |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 _0 |a African Americans |x Legal status, laws, etc. |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 _0 |a Poor laws |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 _0 |a Law |x Political aspects |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 650 _0 |a Equality before the law |z United States |x History |y 19th century.
- 950 __ |a SCNU |f D971.21/E26