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Invisible masters : gender, race, and the economy of service in early New England / Elisabeth Ceppi.

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Main Author: Ceppi, Elisabeth (Author)
Other title:Gender, race, and the economy of service in early New England.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2018]
Series:Re-mapping the transnational.
Subjects:
Slavery > New England > History.
Slavery and the church > New England > History.
Slavery > Religious aspects.
Enslaved persons > New England > Social conditions.
Indentured servants > New England > Social conditions.
Household employees > New England > Social conditions.
Puritans > New England.
New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Puritans.
Social conditions.
New England.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The child who serves: household obedience and the public authority of masters
  • Answering back: Elizabeth Knapp's demonic possession and the gender of public service
  • Servant to a Christian: Mary Rowlandson's captivity and the racialization of obedience
  • Racial vocation: New England's calling to slavery
  • The spirit of mastery: Samson Occom, Benjamin Franklin, and modern hypocrisy
  • Coda: serving the plot.

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