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This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the
formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts
presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region,
imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the
experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the
formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts
presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region,
imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the
experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the
formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts
presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region,
imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the
experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the
formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts
presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region,
imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the
experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.
Sharon V. Salinger's "Taverns and Drinking in Early America"
supplies the first study of public houses and drinking throughout
the mainland British colonies. At a time when drinking water
supposedly endangered one's health, colonists of every rank, age,
race, and gender drank often and in quantity, and so taverns became
arenas for political debate, business transactions, and small-town
gossip sessions. Salinger explores the similarities and differences
in the roles of drinking and tavern sociability in small towns,
cities, and the countryside; in Anglican, Quaker, and Puritan
communities; and in four geographic regions. Challenging the
prevailing view that taverns tended to break down class and gender
differences, Salinger persuasively argues they did not signal
social change so much as buttress custom and encourage
exclusion.
In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to
New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it
would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly
forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and
legal basis of the practice and the religious and humanistic vision
of those who enforced it. Historians Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon
V. Salinger follow one otherwise obscure town clerk, Robert Love,
as he walked through Boston's streets to tell sojourners, "in His
Majesty's Name," that they were warned to depart the town in
fourteen days. This declaration meant not that newcomers literally
had to leave, but that they could not claim legal settlement or
rely on town poor relief. Warned youths and adults could reside,
work, marry, or buy a house in the city. If they became needy,
their relief was paid for by the province treasurer. Warning thus
functioned as a registration system, encouraging the flow of labor
and protecting town coffers. Between 1765 and 1774, Robert Love
warned four thousand itinerants, including youthful migrant
workers, demobilized British soldiers, recently exiled Acadians,
and women following the redcoats who occupied Boston in 1768.
Appointed warner at age sixty-eight owing to his unusual capacity
for remembering faces, Love kept meticulous records of the
sojourners he spoke to, including where they lodged and whether
they were lame, ragged, drunk, impudent, homeless, or begging.
Through these documents, Dayton and Salinger reconstruct the
biographies of travelers, exploring why so many people were on the
move throughout the British Atlantic and why they came to Boston.
With a fresh interpretation of the role that warning played in
Boston's civic structure and street life, Robert Love's Warnings
reveals the complex legal, social, and political landscape of New
England in the decade before the Revolution.
Thousands crossed the Atlantic to labor as bound workers in the
Quaker colony. They came with little more than vague promises that
servitude would propel them toward a future that would enable them
to lead independent lives. What motivated them to take th
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