Home rule : households, manhood, and national expansion on the eighteenth-century Kentucky frontier / Honor Sachs.

Sachs, Honor, author.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines scholarship with an narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole.
Servant to master — To live independent — Ruin poor families — A stroke of manly courage — A new race of men.

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Requested by Lansing, M.

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