Invisible masters : gender, race, and the economy of service in early New England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ceppi, Elisabeth (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2018]
Series:	Re-mapping the transnational.
Subjects:	Slavery > New England > History. Slavery and the church > New England > History. Slavery > Religious aspects. Slaves > New England > Social conditions. Indentured servants > New England > Social conditions. Household employees > New England > Social conditions. Puritans > New England. New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Puritans. Social conditions. New England. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Unprofitable servants
The child who serves : household obedience and the public authority of masters
Answering back : Elizabeth Knapp's demonic possession and the gender of public service
Servant to a Christian : Mary Rowlandson's captivity and the racialization of obedience
Racial vocation : New England's calling to slavery
The spirit of mastery : Samson Occom, Benjamin Franklin, and modern hypocrisy
Coda : serving the plot.