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To Her Credit Av Sara T. Damiano

<p><b>A transformative look at colonial women''s pivotal roles as lenders and debtors in shaping the economic and legal systems of Newport and Boston.</b></p><p>In colonial Boston and Newport, personal credit relationships were a cornerstone of economic networks. During the eighteenth century, the pace of market exchange quickened and debt cases swelled the dockets of county courts, institutions that became ever more central to enforcing financial obligations. At the same time, seafaring and military service drew men away from home, some never to return. The absences of male household heads during this era of economic transition forced New Englanders to evaluate a pressing question: Who would establish and manage consequential financial relationships?</p><p>In <i>To Her Credit</i>, Sara T. Damiano uncovers free women''s centrality to the interrelated worlds of eighteenth-century finance and law. Focusing on everyday life in Boston, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island¿two of the bu

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