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The Free Women of Petersburg
Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
by Suzanne Lebsock
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9780393952643,
Paperback,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1985
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Publisher Notes
In a new book that has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century? Winner of the Bancroft Prize for 1985.
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