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Contents Introduction 1 Simon Middleton and Billy G. Smith 1 Theorizing Class in Glasgow and the Atlantic World 16 Simon P. Newman 2 Stratification and Class in Eastern Native America 35 Daniel K. Richter 3 Subaltern Indians, Race, and Class in Early America 49 Daniel R. Mandell 4 Class Struggle in a West Indian Plantation Society 62 Natalie Zacek 5 Class at an African Commercial Enclave 76 Ty M. Reese 6 A Class Struggle in New York? 88 Simon Middleton 7 Middle-Class Formation in Eighteenth-Century North America 99 Konstantin Dierks 8 Business Friendships and Individualism in a Mercantile Class of Citizens in Charleston 109 Jennifer L. Goloboy 9 Corporations and the Coalescence of an Elite Class in Philadelphia 123 Andrew M. Schocket 10 Class, Discourse, and Industrialization in the New American Republic 138 Lawrence A. Peskin 11 Sex and Other Middle-Class Pastimes in the Life of Ann Carson 156 Susan Branson 12 Leases and the Laboring Classes in Revolutionary America 168 Thomas J. Humphrey 13 Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban North America 185 Gabriele Gottlieb 14 Class Stratification and Children’s Work in Post-Revolutionary Urban America 198 Sharon Braslaw Sundue 15 Afterword: Constellations of Class in Early North America and the Atlantic World 213 Christopher Tomlins Notes 235 List of Contributors 315 Index 319 Acknowledgments 327 viii Contents [54.85.255.74] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 12:36 GMT) Of all the hokum with which this country [the United States] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions. —W. Somerset Maugham Though the conditions of mankind are various, they may with propriety be included under three denominations—the rich, the middling class, and the poor. —“An American” (Pennsylvania Gazette, December 24, 1794) The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. —George Bancroft ...