How did property laws define the legal status of women in the United States? Which groups of women benefitted most and which groups benefitted least from changes to property laws during the nineteenth century?
Answer in 1-3 short paragraphs by making an argument accountable to evidence drawn from the lectures and readings for this week.
Reading:
Linda Kerber, Chapter 1: “‘No Political Relation to the State,’ Conflicting Obligations in the Revolutionary Era,” No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies (1998)
Sarah Brooks Sundburg, “Women and Property in Early Louisiana: Legal Systems at OddsPreview the document,” Journal of the Early Republic, 32, 4 (Winter 2012): 633-66