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<p>In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's work--boarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcohol--but her customers, like her creditors, underscore her connections to an e

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Author

Hartigan-O'Connor, Ellen

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812203943

Category

business

Subjects

Science, History, Economic History

Updated

2026-03-25