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Down and out in early America /

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Down and out in early America /

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edited by Billy G. Smith.

University Park, Pa. :

Pennsylvania State University Press,

©2004.

xx, 327 pages :

illustrations, maps ;

24 cm

Three of the eleven papers in this volume were presented at a session held at the 1997 Organization of American Historians meeting.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "The best poor man's country?" / Billy G. Smith -- Poverty and politics in early American history / Gary B. Nash -- Dead bodies : poverty and death in early national Philadelphia / Simon Newman -- Malthusian miseries and the working poor in Philadelphia, 1780-1830 : gender and infant mortality / Susan E. Klepp -- Slaves and poverty / Philip D. Morgan -- "Who died an expence to this town" : poor relief in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- Gender and the political economy of poor relief in colonial Philadelphia / Karin Wulf -- Poor relief "without violating the rights of humanity" : almshouse administration in the Philadelphia region, 1790-1860 / Monique Bourque -- Bound by charity : the abandoned children of late eighteenth-century Charleston / John E. Murray -- Poverty and politics in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas Humphrey -- "God helps those who help themselves" : religious explanations of poverty in colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1776 / J. Richard Olivas -- The Delaware Indians and poverty in colonial New Jersey / Jean R. Soderlund.

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Charities-- United States-- History.

Economic assistance, Domestic-- United States-- History.

Marginality, Social-- United States-- History.

Poor-- United States-- History.

Poverty-- United States-- History.

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Charities.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Marginality, Social.

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Poverty.

United States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

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United States.

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