A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England by Karen V. Hansen

A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England

Karen V. Hansen

292 pages 1994

2 editions

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Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men—both white and black—n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voic...

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