Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Author/Contributor(s):	Edwards, Laura F
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	02/24/2022
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.