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The "lower sort"

Billy Gordon Smith

1990249 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1990
first published
  • 1990Cornell University Press · 249 pages · ENGISBN 9780801422423
  • 1994Cornell University Press · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780801481635

Recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century. Billy G. Smith demonstrates how the "lower sort" (as they were called by their contemporaries) struggled to carve out meaningful lives during an era of vast change stretching from the Seven Years' War, through the turbulent events surrounding the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution, into the first decade of the new nation.

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