Marriage and Personhood in the 18th Century - Dr. Karin Wulf, PhD

How did a woman's designation of legal personhood change when she got married in the eighteenth century? And what rights did she lose? Isaac S. Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins welcome historian and scholar Dr. Karin Wulf to discuss women, men, and marriage in the British North American colonies and the early United States. For everything else 2 Complicated 4 History check out 2c4hpod.com Relevant Links: Dr. Karin Wulf - https://karinwulf.com/ Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia - https://www.pennpress.org/9780812219173/not-all-wives/ The Geography of Slavery in Virginia - http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/ Virginia Freedom Suits - https://data.virginia.gov/Education/Freedom-Suits/9vfm-ate3/data and https://enduringconnections.salisbury.edu/virginia_freedom_suits_library_of_virginia/records Manumission - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manumission Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri - https://www.pennpress.org/9780812220735/revolutionary-backlash/ Smithsonian articles by Dr. Wulf - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/author/karin-wulf/ Brown University - https://earlymodernworld.brown.edu/people/karin-wulf Instagram - @vernaculargenealogy and @karin.wulf  Mastodon - kawulf@historians.social Twitter - @kawulf To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices