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- Title
Women, Property, and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1630-1700.
- Authors
MOORE, LINDSAY R.
- Abstract
Colonial women in North America did not enjoy more advantages and legal freedoms than their counterparts in England. The approximately 60,000 women who emigrated from England to the colonies between 1630 and 1700 left behind the benefits of a complex but comprehensive system of English law that protected and served their needs with a level of sophistication that the American courts lacked. Though Anglo-American culture remained fundamentally patriarchal throughout the early modern period, in the seventeenth century the English legal system provided women with more varied and robust methods of circumventing the law of coverture than did the colonial legal system.
- Subjects
NORTH America; ENGLAND; WOMEN; HISTORY of colonial law; LAW; JURISDICTION; PETITIONS; HISTORY of common law; PROPERTY rights -- History; HISTORY of American law; SEVENTEENTH century; LEGAL status of women; TWENTY-first century; SOCIAL history; HISTORY; LEGAL history
- Publication
Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016, Vol 14, Issue 3, p537
- ISSN
1543-4273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/eam.2016.0017