NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
Richard Price, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution (London, 1784).
Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York, Knopf, 1993), p. 220.
3 Ibid., p. 239.
4 Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), p. 219.
5 Alan Taylor, ‘The People of British America, 1700—1750,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, available at www.fpri.org/orbis/ accessed January 10, 2006, p. 1 (based on chapters 8 and 14 in Alan Taylor, American Colonies (New York: Viking Penguin, 2001)).
6 Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780—1860 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
7 Winifred Barr Rothenberg, From Market-Places to a Market Economy: The Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750—1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992); Alan Kulikoff, ‘‘The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., 46 (1989), 120—44.
8 Eugene D. Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South (New York: Vintage, 1965).
9 Adam Smith, An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 411—2.
10 Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (New York: Little, Brown, 1974); Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract. The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1989).
11Michael Merrill, ‘‘Putting ‘Capitalism’ in its Place: A Review of Recent Literature,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, Vol. 52:2 (1995), 315—26.
12 Taylor, The People of British America, p.
10.13 Phillip Greven, Four Generations: Population, Land and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts (New York, 1970); Nancy R. Folbre, ‘‘The Wealth of Patriarchs: Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1760—1840,’’ Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16:2 (1985), 199—220.
14 Susan B. Carter, Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch, ‘‘Family Matters: The Life-Cycle Transition and the Unparalleled Antebellum American Fertility Decline,’’ in Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren Whatley, eds History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).
15 Alexander Hamilton, Papers 10:252 (5 December 1791), available on line at http://press- pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch4s31.html
16 Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution. Jacksonian America, 1815—1846 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 226.
17 Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 30.
18 Philip S. Foner, The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine (New York: Citadel Press, 1945), available online at http://www.thomaspaine.org
19 Common Sense, in Foner, Complete Writings.
20 Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origin of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967); Edwin G. Burrows and Michael Wallace, ‘‘The Ideology and Psychology of National Liberation,” Perspectives in American History VI (1972), 167—306.
21 Dror Wahrman, ‘‘The English Problem of Identity in the American Revolution,” The American Historical Review 106: 4 (2001), p. 23.
22 Wahrman, ‘‘The English Problem of Identity,” p. 10.
23 Wahrman, ‘‘The English Problem of Identity”.
24 Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers. The Revolutionary Generation (New York: Vintage, 2002).
25 Kerber, Women of the Republic; Mary Beth Norton, Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750—1800 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1980).
26 Pauline Schloesser, The Fair Sex. White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic (New York: New York University Press, 2002), p. 18; cited in Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1993), p. 147.
27 Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Roads to Modernity. The British French, and American Enlightenments (New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 201.
28 Schloesser, The Fair Sex.
29 Himmelfarb, The Roads to Modernity.
30 E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (New York: Vintage Books, 1963), 93-4.
31 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770—1823 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975), p. 24.
32 Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 236.
33 Thomas F. Gossett, Race. The History of an Idea in America (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963), p. 42.
34 Gossett, The History of an Idea, p. 44.
35 Kirsten Fischer, Suspect Relations. Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002); Kathleen M. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs. Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
36 Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract. The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1989), p. 119.
37 On Jefferson’s ambivalence toward abolition, especially in his later years, see Davis, The Problem of Slavery, p 172—7.
38 Gossett, Race, ρ. 43.
39 Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998).
40 Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract.
The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 119.41 Davis, The Problem of Slavery.
42 Rhys Isaac, Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation (New York: Oxford, 2004).
43 Carolyn Johnston, Sexual Power. Feminism and the Family in America (Tuscaloosa, AL University of Alabama Press, 1992), p. 75.
44 Gerda Lerner, The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 37.
45 Sarah Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Other Essays, ed. Elizabeth Ann Bartless (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), p. 35. See also Gerda Lerner, The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
46 Grimke, Letters, p. 63.
47 ‘‘In those employments which are peculiar to women, their time is estimated at only half of the value of that of men. A woman who goes out to wash, works as hard in proportion as a wood sawyer, or a coal heaver, but she is not generally able to make more than half as much by a day’s work.’’ Ibid., p. 59.
48 Joan Tronto, ‘‘Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care,’’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 12:4 (1987), 644—63 and Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethics of Care (New York: Routledge, 1993).
49 Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution. Jacksonian America, 1815—1846 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 244.
50 James Huzel, The Popularization of Malthus in Early 19th Century England (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006), 68—70.
51 Deborah A. Logan, ‘‘The Redemption of a Heretic: Harriet Martineau and Anglo- American Abolitionism in Pre-Civil War America,’’ 242—65 in Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer, eds, Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007).
52 Harriet Martineau, Autobiography, with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman, 4th edn.
(Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1879), vol. 2, pp. 562—74.53 Harriet Martineau, ‘‘The Political Non-Existence of Women,’’ in Gayle Graham Yates, ed., Harriet Martineau on Women (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985), p. 136.
54 See Logan, ‘‘Redemption,” and also Harriet Martineau, The Martyr Age of the United States (Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839).
55 See Note 12 in David M. Levy, ‘‘Taking Harriet Martineau’s Economics Seriously,” 262—84 in The Status of Women in Classical Economic Thought, eds Robert Dimand and Chris Nyland (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2003).
56 Huzel, The Popularization of Malthus, p. 77.
57 Levy, ‘‘Taking Harriet Martineau’s Economics Seriously,’’ p. 266.
58 Alexis de Toqueville,Democracy in America, Vol. II (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951) Book 1, Chapter XVIII.
59 de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Book 1, Ch. 2.
60 de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Book II, Chapter 8.
61 Ibid., p. 211.